A reassessment of the iconic species has “some dramatic implications for how we view giraffe conservation across Africa,” a new study concludes.
A reassessment of the iconic species has “some dramatic implications for how we view giraffe conservation across Africa,” a new study concludes.
A Masai giraffe, native to East Africa, is one of four species of giraffe.Credit...Billy Dodson/GCF
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By Carl Zimmer
For more than 260 years, scientists have consider giraffes a single species. Giraffa camelopardalis, as it was long known, existed across thousands of miles of African grasslands and woodlands.
The giraffe is no longer one single species, but four distinct ones, including one that is critically endangered
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