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The southern giraffe (Giraffa giraffa), also known as two-horned giraffe, [1] is a species of giraffe native to Southern Africa. [2] However, the IUCN currently recognizes only one species of giraffe with nine subspecies. [3] [4]
The Giraffidae are a family of ruminant artiodactyl mammals that share a recent common ancestor with deer and bovids.This family, once a diverse group spread throughout Eurasia and Africa, presently comprises only two extant genera, the giraffe (between one and eight, usually four, species of Giraffa, depending on taxonomic interpretation) and the okapi (the only known species of Okapia).
The northern giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), also known as three-horned giraffe, [2] is the type species of giraffe, G. camelopardalis, and is native to North Africa, although alternative taxonomic hypotheses have proposed the northern giraffe as a separate species. [3] [1]
The giraffe is one of only two living genera of the family Giraffidae in the order Artiodactyla, the other being the okapi. [6] They are ruminants of the clade Pecora , along with Antilocapridae ( pronghorns ), Cervidae (deer), Bovidae (cattle, antelope, goats and sheep) and Moschidae (musk deer).
The birth of the spotless giraffe comes after the loss of two rare all-white giraffes in 2020 at the Ishaqbini Hirola Community Conservancy in Ijara, Garissa County. The all-white giraffes had ...
Giraffe ossicones consist of a highly vascularized and innervated bone core covered with similarly vascularized and innervated skin. [1] They are attached to the skull with vascularized, innervated connective tissue. [1] Ossicones are formed at late gestation, but in early development they are not bony and not fused to the skull yet.
And yes, rhinoceroses made the cut — but, says Bartsch, the one-horned Asian variety rather than the two-horned African rhino shown in the new movie. “They didn't ride the rhinos at all ...
The giraffe-like creatures are composed of two species: the giraffe and the okapi. The musk deer is ... (the horned ruminants) for the time being, ...