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The South African giraffe or Cape giraffe (Giraffa giraffa [2] or Giraffa camelopardalis giraffa) is a species or subspecies of giraffe found in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Eswatini and Mozambique. It has rounded or blotched spots, some with star-like extensions on a light tan background, running down to the hooves.
South African giraffe (G. g. giraffa), also known as Cape giraffe: Is found in northern South Africa, southern Botswana, southern Zimbabwe, Eswatini and south-western Mozambique. It has dark, somewhat rounded patches "with some fine projections" on a tawny background colour. The spots extend down the legs and get smaller.
The South African giraffe (G. c. giraffa) is found in northern South Africa, southern Botswana, northern Botswana and southwestern Mozambique. [1] [37] [38] It has a tawny background colour marked with dark, somewhat rounded patches "with some fine projections". The spots extend down the legs, growing smaller as they do.
This reserve contains Africa's Big Five.It was the home of Tjololo, a famous male leopard, as well as the famous Sparta lion pride. Cheetah, spotted hyena, blue wildebeest, plains zebra, hippopotamus, South African giraffe, impala, greater kudu, sable antelope and Cape hunting dog are among the other large mammals that roam here.
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).
In fact, Kipekee is the first giraffe of her kind without spots since one that was born in Tokyo in 1972, according to Bright. “So there are no other living giraffes of this color,” he said.
However, although Suid-Afrika ("South Africa") is used in Afrikaans rather than Zuid-Afrika as in Dutch, South Africa adopted "ZA" as its international vehicle registration code in 1936, which later became the country's ISO country code, with .za becoming the country's internet domain.
Genetic testing published in 2007 confirmed the distinctiveness of the West African giraffe. [5] [7] [8] [9] Most captive giraffes from northwestern Africa are in French zoological parks, a result of the French colonies in West Africa. Those giraffes were formerly treated as G. c. peralta.