The new study puts them under four species that include the northern giraffe, southern giraffe, reticulated giraffe and Masai giraffe.
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Now they will belong to one of four species: the southern giraffe, the Masai giraffe, the reticulated giraffe and the northern giraffe.
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The most basic thing you thought you knew about giraffes is wrong — in fact, there are four species of giraffe, not one, scientists announced today: the southern giraffe, the Masai giraffe, the reticulated giraffe, and the northern giraffe.
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The two most famous giraffe mothers on the internet, April the giraffe and "human giraffe mom", have finally met IRL, bringing all of us into peak giraffe territory.
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Step aside April the giraffe, there's a new giraffe in town and this giraffe is the best one.
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Giraffe facts The average gestation period for a giraffe is about 15 months, according to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation.
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We've even joked about getting a giraffe and putting a giraffe.
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Giraffe Fucks Up LionYou might think: Giraffe is a weak creature.
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" Legend offered him the giraffe and asked, "What does a giraffe say?
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The other two, the southern giraffe (Giraffa giraffa), and the northern giraffe (G.
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Forget April the giraffe: Autumn is the new giraffe mom of the moment.
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A photo of the star-patterned giraffe — dressed up for vacation with giraffe sunglasses and a giraffe hat — went viral on Wednesday as people mourned the loss of a childhood staple.
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Zoo kills "surplus" giraffe in front of children, feeds it to lionsDid this giraffe really need to die?
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You're not seeing Simba bop from giraffe to giraffe or wear a fake mane made out of leaves.
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"The giraffe in the photo is of the South African species Giraffa giraffe, which are not rare – they are increasing in the wild," Julian Fennessy, Ph.D., co-founder of the Giraffe Conservation Foundation told Yahoo Lifestyle .
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On Friday, World Giraffe Day, the Canadian zoo announced that their female Masai giraffe Mstari is expecting her first calf.
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According to Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, the facility cares for their giraffe herd and the giraffe herds out in the wild.
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It's been just about a full month of "Watch April the giraffe give birth," livestreams - and still, no baby giraffe.
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Giraffe populations worldwide have fallen by around 40% in the last two decades, according to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation's website.
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The most commonly found giraffe products for sale include giraffe hide cowboy boots, knives made from the animal's bones and giraffe skin throw pillows, according to the investigation that found parts for sale at more than 52 U.S. stores.
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The most commonly found giraffe products for sale include giraffe hide cowboy boots, knives made from the animals's bones and giraffe skin throw pillows, according to the investigation that found parts for sale at more than 52 U.S. stores.
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Fans of precious baby animals can keep track of the new giraffe calf through the zoo and National Geographic's giraffe birth cam.
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The zoo celebrates this birth even more so on World Giraffe Day, which is a "holiday" focusing on conservation efforts encompassing various giraffe subspecies.
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All money raised from the naming contest will be split among giraffe conservation efforts and giraffe care at the adventure park, according to Patch.
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It's joined in the menagerie by another giraffe cut into sections and the skull of another giraffe that has been exploded into three parts.
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Earlier this week, Teigen shared a sweet photo of her baby boy lounging on a yellow giraffe print pillow in a coordinating giraffe patterned onesie.
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"The giraffe in the photo is of the South African species Giraffa giraffe, which are not rare – they are increasing in the wild," he said.
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The male giraffe often peeks in on April, and the mom-to-be usually reciprocates Oliver's attention by nuzzling him and standing near the giraffe dad.
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Yes, the internet is awash in baby giraffe pictures after April the giraffe gave birth at the Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, New York on Saturday.
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If Yorkshire had space for a fifth giraffe, then Jörg Jebram, the giraffe coördinator, could have supplied, at any time, the best candidate from Europe's surplus.
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The zoo says that the male giraffe, named Kimba, passed away Sunday after it had collapsed to the ground early that morning in the zoo's giraffe barn -- where the staff had been monitoring a pregnant female giraffe who's supposed to go into labor any day now.
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The latest addition to the London Zoo is a baby okapi — also known as a zebra giraffe because of its zebra-like stripes and giraffe-like face.
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LONDON — If someone asked you to predict the outcome of a pack of lions hunting a fleeing giraffe, you probably wouldn't bet too heavily on the giraffe.
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Hence a project, begun in 2015 by the Ugandan Wildlife Authority and the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, a charity based in Namibia, to extract groups of these animals from the park and take them to places that look like prime giraffe habitat, but which currently have no giraffe in them.
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Three of the currently-recognized subspecies—the southern giraffe of South Africa, the West African giraffe of Niger, and the Rothschild's giraffe of Eastern Africa—have seen their numbers rise since 1985 due to better management, pro-active conservation policies, and in some places, a booming eco-tourism industry.
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The Los Angeles Zoo's newborn Masai giraffe sure is punctual: The female calf arrived just in time for World Giraffe Day, which is observed on Thursday, June 21.
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By studying the okapi genome, the researchers were able to use it as a kind of genetic filter to pinpoint the genes that make a giraffe a giraffe.
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On Tuesday, the mother of two, 32, posted a picture of 5-week-old Miles Theodore lounging on a yellow giraffe print pillow in a coordinating giraffe patterned onesie.
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On Saturday, the zoo announced the birth of a "healthy" baby giraffe, who arrived just five days after the death of its father, a beloved 12-year-old giraffe.
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Two years doesn't sound like too big of an age gap considering that the average gestation period for a giraffe is about 15 months, according to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation.
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For instance, the reticulated giraffe of Somalia, with its polygonal, liver-colored spots, is easily distinguishable from the Roshchild's giraffe of Uganda and Kenya, whose patches are less sharply defined.
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But today, on World Giraffe Day, it's important to note that the United States imports more than one giraffe hunting trophy a day, on average according to the Humane Society.
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Upon closer inspection, the vision was revealed to be a female reticulated giraffe — tall, majestic and preternaturally white — and she was accompanied by a smaller apparition: a pale baby giraffe.
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But now, thanks to a newly-discovered fossil of a new species of extinct, ancestral giraffe, the giraffe family tree just grew a few more limbs and came into tighter focus.
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Roshchild's giraffe, for its part, has similar coat markings to the Masai giraffe of Kenya and Tanzania, but closer inspection of the skull reveals five ossicones instead of the typical three.
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The giraffes roam freely around the hotel during the day time and there is no other hotel in the world that offers a giraffe experience like this, according to Giraffe Manor.
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World waits, watches for April the giraffe to give birth Julie Banderas reports from New York Tajiri, whose father is a 6-year-old giraffe named Oliver, now stands 10 feet tall.
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The theme echoes Ledgard's first novel, "Giraffe," from 2006, which is partly written from the perspective of a Kenyan giraffe, which ends up being killed in Czechoslovak captivity during the Soviet era.
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The market for items made from giraffes across the country includes pricey items ranging from $8,85033 for an entire giraffe taxidermy to $400 for a giraffe leather Bible cover, the group's investigation found.
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The market for items made from giraffes across the country includes pricey items ranging from $85033,000 for an entire giraffe taxidermy to $400 for a giraffe leather Bible cover, the group's investigation found.
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The giraffe family (Giraffidae) is an exclusive club these days.
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Upon his arrival, the young giraffe was placed near Murphy.
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Maybe someday you can achieve the ultimate goal: giraffe Parkour.
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When the baby giraffe emerges, it drops to the ground.
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The giraffe wasn't the only creature to catch Jenner's eye.
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This giraffe costume is his favorite thing to wear pic.twitter.
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If you were thinking this about Giraffe, you are wrong.
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Adult male Masai giraffe in the Mikumi National Park, Tanzania.
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An adult male Masai giraffe in Ndarakwai - West Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.
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And somehow, this totally random, pregnant giraffe filled the order.
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Don't ever get on the wrong side of a giraffe.
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Misha, the mother giraffe in the photo, died last year.
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But if it's about height, the giraffe is the biggest.
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A giraffe at the Mashatu game reserve in Mapungubwe, Botswana.
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According to Disney Parks, the giraffe is named after an Amazon warrior and she is living up to the history — Aella the giraffe calf is said to be a bold, independent and curious kid.
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A listing of the giraffe under the ESA could make it harder for U.S. hunters to bring back the pelts, bones and various body parts of any giraffe killed abroad — a typical deterrent for hunters.
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Unfortunately, this is not the year's first surprising zoo giraffe death.
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Another high-profile giraffe pregnancy might be in our future, internet.
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And then they get to the giraffe and the alligator tail.
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Commonly referred to as "daddy long legs", the giant, & the giraffe.
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Image: Derek KeatsYou probably think you know how giraffe necks evolved.
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But how do you calculate the surface area of a giraffe?
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By contrast, the mother giraffe stands unfazed amid the dry savanna.
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We obsess about the bison, about the zebra or the giraffe.
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One shot showed the giraffe licking Jenner's hands as she smiled.
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In cause you missed it, April the giraffe is pregnant again.
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The new arrival is a reticulated giraffe who measures 5-ft.
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Tajiri's dad Oliver the giraffe is also the new baby's father.
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Some action is being taken to reverse the giraffe declines, however.
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Police cars are not built for lanky giraffe bodies was one.
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The study is particularly important for the conservation of the giraffe.
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The giraffe is a response to the problem of the tree.
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Animals rights advocates say this is particularly worrisome for the giraffe.
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This is no tall tale — April the Giraffe is pregnant again.
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Giraffe populations have declined 40 percent in the last 30 years.
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His father is a director of the Giraffe Center in Nairobi.
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Wombaroo had its colostrum product and giraffe formula ready to go.
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No, April the giraffe hasn't given birth to her calf yet.
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She was known to be the most "mischievous" and "outgoing" giraffe.
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The giraffe was also given two transfusions of giraffe plasma from the Columbus and Cheyenne Mountain zoos, as well as multiple courses of antibiotics, IV fluids, and other intensive care, in order to boost his immune system.
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They brought us the terrifying giraffe bot and Spot, the robot dog.
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It took the giraffe five hours to successfully fend off the lions.
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TO A FOREIGN tourist, a giraffe is an extraordinary and elegant beast.
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A giraffe can weigh as much as a tonne and a half.
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Giraffe eat about 35kg a day of leaves from bushes and trees.
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"Yesterday was cute," Jenner captioned the image with Woods and a giraffe.
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The giraffe does her best to keep all her hairs in place.
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This is the 14th giraffe born at the Cincinnati Zoo since 1889.
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The average weight for a male baby giraffe calf is 150 pounds.
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That's 7.6 million minutes spent watching a pregnant giraffe in a pen.
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It looks like Geoffrey the Giraffe is about to make a comeback.
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It's with great sadness we report the loss of the giraffe calf.
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It's somehow even more heartbreaking when it's used on a giant giraffe.
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Giraffe Welcome 2019March 16th 12:43 pmWelcome to the world little one!
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The 15-year-old giraffe delivered her calf shortly before 10 a.m.
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This is April's fourth calf, but Animal Adventure Park's first giraffe calf.
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The wait for the giraffe became an anxiety-ridden experience for some.
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The giraffe declines are not the only news from the IUCN today.
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The zoo is creating a special memorial wall to remember the giraffe.
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The new finding has important implications for giraffe conservation, Dr. Janke said.
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America imported more than 21,000 giraffe-bone carvings between 2006 and 85033.
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A giraffe fending off a lion in a heroic bid for freedom.
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"The average [gestation period] for a giraffe is 15 months," Patch said.
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The mother giraffe and her calf were killed by poachers, they said.
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But a bit about the intricacies of giraffe procreation, well, that's new.
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Only one known giraffe with the condition now remains, according to Ahmedoor.
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The dead giraffe is curled up on the ground in souvenir photographs.
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And Marius was born at a time of giraffe plenitude in Europe.
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Until Sunday morning, "people thought they could save the giraffe," Holst said.
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Can you tell which giraffe doesn't have a twin with matching spots?
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According to the zoo, Zuberi, an 8-year-old male reticulated giraffe, died under the animal park's care after getting his neck "wedged in a small space in a metal railing" at the facility's off-exhibit giraffe complex.
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Federal wildlife officials said Thursday that they would officially consider listing the giraffe as an endangered species, a move long sought by conservationists alarmed by the African mammal's precipitous decline and a growing domestic market for giraffe products.
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Not only does her birth help continue the Zoo's efforts in its giraffe breeding program, but it also gives us an opportunity to educate guests on giraffe conservation and the current threats that the species faces in the wild.
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Rare white giraffe may be happy, but its life is in danger 'Silent extinction' The plunge in the number of wild giraffe prompted the group to move the animals from the "least concern" rating to "vulnerable," in the report.
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A cutout of a cartoon lion designates Anias; a giraffe watches over Jadon.
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When the circuses could have animals, we cremated a tigress and a giraffe.
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Spotted this rare black giraffe bull and stalked him for quite a while.
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American hunter&aposs images of her black giraffe &apostrophy kill&apos spark outrage .
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Sowell says that, should the family win, they plan to buy a giraffe.
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In fact, other than a leg wound, the giraffe doesn't seem that fussed.
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Then there was this internet-wide conspiracy theory about April the giraffe — a.k.a.
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Contains some upsetting images of dead giraffes and a discussion of giraffe sexuality.
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A picture of a giraffe appears, alongside a few lines about Charles Darwin.
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Click here to view original GIFBBCYou might think: Giraffe is a weak creature.
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The giant pterosaur, Arambourgiania, compared for size against a giraffe and a human.
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Welp, April the giraffe still hasn't given birth and, frankly, we're over it.
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The Kansas City Zoo welcomed a new baby giraffe born on Feb. 2.
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Be clever, be cute, just be sure this baby giraffe gets a name.
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The growing human population is having a negative impact on many giraffe subpopulations.
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And his giraffe name is ... well, you're gonna have to wait for that.
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Since being spotted, the giraffe has become a bit of an internet sensation.
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The duo founded the Wild Nature Institute and launched Project GIRAFFE in 2011.
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If someone just straight up proposed a giraffe, for instance, would you approve?
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"They used to call me zebra, burnt lips, giraffe, Michael Jackson," he said.
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The reticulated giraffe has brown-orange patches separated by thick, bright white lines.
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The Giraffe Tomasz Narkuns is a grappler but not in the tedious sense.
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Fang installed dinosaur sculptures, a woolly mammoth, a giraffe, and Fred Flintstone figures.
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Over 1 million people watched April the giraffe give birth live on YouTube.
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In some cases subspecies of giraffe were upgraded to being full-blown species.
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One room contains touches of African-inspired artwork including giraffe and elephant sculptures.
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Apparently, a giraffe just can't have a few precious moments of solitude anymore.
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"The giraffe has the speed and stamina to outrun the pride," said Attenborough.
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Video of the giraffe posted to YouTube racked up over a million views.
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In person, Dern, 52, is gangly, more of a giraffe than an ostrich.
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I said, 'It makes sense for 'giraffe' to be masculine, they're so tall.
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In the large dining room, a pregnant giraffe stands over an expansive table.
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In accordance with zoo policy, the giraffe was not given a public name.
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Eventually, the baby giraffe, April's fourth, will be moved to a separate facility.
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DeMore said first responders found at least one giraffe at a nearby pond.
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A giraffe entered the world just six days after its father, Kimba, died.
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The Giraffe Center uses proceeds to help breed and resettle endangered Rothschild's giraffes.
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For instance, "Northern giraffe number less than 4,750 individuals in the wild, and reticulated giraffe number less than 8,700 individuals—as distinct species, it makes them some of the most endangered large mammals in the world," he said in a statement.
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The staffers did not provide reasons why they suspect the giraffe may be pregnant.
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Zoo officials reached out to giraffe specialists for help, but it was too late.
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I think out of everyone, Scarlet will trip … We call her the baby giraffe.
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After treatment, the young giraffe appeared to have returned to her normal, healthy self.
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This is the 11th consecutive year that the zoo has celebrated a giraffe birth.
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On Boxing Day, its Rothschild's giraffe Tula gave birth to healthy and adorable calf.
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So they began a breeding program to reintroduce the Rothschild's giraffe into the wild.
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It also contributes to the rapid bone-growth phase after a giraffe is born.
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The Columbus Zoo has been left devastated following the death of a baby giraffe.
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Oliver the giraffe, Tajiri's 6-year-old father, is once again April's baby daddy.
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The giraffe has already grown to 6 feet 4 inches and weighs 180 pounds.
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After all, here we are writing our fourth story about a giraffe giving birth.
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Will the joy of another giraffe birth be enough to carry us into 2018?
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They might need to discuss this incident over tea and a few giraffe crackers.
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And the "learn how to sponsor" button on their dedicated April the Giraffe website.
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Former employees have started groups, the Dead Giraffe Society, to share resumes and experiences.
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And our online marketplaces are stuffed with items made with giraffe bones and skins.
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We may have lost Toys 'R' Us but there's hope for Geoffrey the Giraffe.
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Patch said 7-year-old Oliver the Giraffe is the father of the calf.
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However, for the giraffe birth video spoofer Erin Deitrich, the wait is finally over.
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We still don't really know why the giraffe evolved its long neck and legs.
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The title refers to potential replacements for a giraffe the zoo had that died.
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Here, in February, 2012, a male giraffe was born into a herd of seven.
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The show has broadcast the dissections of a dozen exotic animals, including a giraffe.
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Think baby clothes, touch-and-feel books, and that one toy giraffe, for example.
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The orphanage said the giraffe had been unstable on its feet in recent days.
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The giraffe arrived at the orphanage a few weeks ago, just days after birth.
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And I have Savannah who is a giraffe type but she's got zebra stripes.
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If the 16-year-old giraffe is pregnant, she will likely give birth in 2019.
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But perhaps it's best for us to start imagining a world without the humble giraffe.
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So, something AMAZING happened in our giraffe house yesterday...Welcome to the world, little one!
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We didn't need the official stats to know that April the giraffe broke some records.
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Maybe next we'll hear that Amazon has a special holiday mascot called Geremy the Giraffe.
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Toledo Zoo This little lady is Kipenzi, a baby Masai giraffe born on April 3.
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That was Thursday, it's now Sunday and April the giraffe has yet to give birth.
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Tesco also said it planned to sell the Giraffe restaurant chain to Boparan Restaurants Holdings.
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She immediately provided some helpful information: Giraffe pregnancy should be obvious to the trained eye.
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The world's most famous giraffe mom is about to cause a frenzy all over again.
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The proud papa, a 5-year-old giraffe named Oliver, watched from an adjacent pen.
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He's plugged in to internet culture, whether it's April the pregnant giraffe or the Kardashians.
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She also usurps Vivian the giraffe, who gave birth at the Peoria Zoo in January.
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Pills to make children grow taller are presented with a bottle alongside a cartoon giraffe.
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The Wild Nature Institute has launched one of the biggest giraffe demography projects in history.
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Moments before the adult giraffe became wedged, he was observed by his caretakers acting normal.
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Is Tess Thompson Talley seriously thanking God here after killing a rare, magnificent black giraffe?
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But Geoffrey the Giraffe, the retail chain's mascot, may not be leaving us for long.
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It's a very complex level of energy compared to a giraffe, or a metal alloy.
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The facility took Jazz in when the baby giraffe was only a few days old.
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When it comes to the international trade in giraffe parts, the U.S. is heavily implicated.
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Like the giraffe, the oryx is threatened by people hunting them and developing their habitats.
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Well fine, but just you wait until you see my ocelot scones and giraffe pikelets.
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Over a million viewers clicked onto the livestream to see the miracle of giraffe birth.
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We are the only community in the world who are custodians of the white giraffe.
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Zebra, Giraffe, Elephants, White-Eared Kob (a type of antelope) -- were all considered fair game.
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The international trade in giraffe parts would now be controlled for the first time ever.
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The giraffe had bonded with a watchdog, named Hunter, at a South African animal shelter.
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It added that resident watchdog Hunter was by the giraffe&aposs side when it died.
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A stuffed Geoffrey the Giraffe — the Toys R Us mascot — greeted us at the front.
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In an effort to learn more about the genetic constitution of the giraffe—and to paint a clearer picture of its evolutionary history—scientists from Penn State University sequenced the entire giraffe genome (along with the okapi genome), making them the first to do so.
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Walrus fights, giraffe scraps, meerkats jawing each other— you name it, this show's got it. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
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The improvements come a week after the pair was trampled by a female giraffe on Sept.
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For those who aren't spending Sunday at the zoo, a couple of giraffe statues will do.
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The park's spokesman, Stephen Donnelly, meanwhile, insisted that the money is going towards giraffe conservation efforts.
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Realistically, she should not probably pet a giraffe, because they are wild animals in a zoo.
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While the leggy sweeties are often confused with zebras, the okapi's closest relative is the giraffe.
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On Tuesday, Dietrich took along her baby Porter to meet April the giraffe and her newborn.
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Not long ago, the zoo held a naming contest, with all proceeds to benefit giraffe conservation.
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She continues to explore the giraffe habitat for brief periods as she strengthens those baby legs.
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A photographer captured the giraffe leaning over its enclosure, peering into the rhino exhibit next door.
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But we really can't get emotionally invested in another year and a half long giraffe pregnancy.
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The baby giraffe has yet to be named, but it has already become an Internet star.
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Once the male giraffe has matured, he will be moved to another zoo to prevent inbreeding.
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All of this made me wonder: Does anyone know what is going on with this giraffe?
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This new initiative led Davis to Kiko, a baby giraffe orphaned by habitat loss and hunting.
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It said Tesco also planned to sell coffee shop chain Harris & Hoole and restaurant chain Giraffe.
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After months of anxious waiting, livestream phenomenon April the Giraffe gave birth to a son. 11.
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He reportedly shot a giraffe, leopard, impala, sable antelope, waterbuck, kudu, warthog, gemsbok (oryx) and eland.
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This is the second sudden giraffe death the zoo has experienced in the past five years.
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Over the past 30 years giraffe numbers have dropped to about 90,000 individuals from about 150,000.
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But does it really count as surreal if one of them isn't also, say, a giraffe?
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KOURE, Niger — In the last three decades, 40 percent of the world's giraffe population has died.
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Have you seen this adorable photo of a baby giraffe getting a kiss from its mother?
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Now, you don't need to turn yourself into a giraffe to have a bizarre voice attached.
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Toys 'R' Us files for bankruptcy protection Apparently, Geoffrey the Giraffe has fallen on hard times.
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The U.S. market for imported giraffe parts is booming, according to an investigative report published Thursday.
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The day has finally arrived ... April the Giraffe is about to give birth live on camera!!!
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The female white giraffe first made headlines when she was discovered, alongside her calf, in 2017.
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He said it was not clear how much of the giraffe products' import comes from poaching.
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I find that it wasn't an elephant I had in mind, after all, but a giraffe.
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When Marius was about a year old, Jebram informed Copenhagen that the giraffe was genetically unnecessary.
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The giraffe—looking desiccated but not disfigured—was put on display in a clear, airless box.
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A resident watchdog named Hunter and the giraffe bonded immediately, Janie Van Heerden, a caretaker, said.
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But if you're sick of waiting for an update from April's laughably long birthing livestream —it's been over a month, now —the Chester Zoo in the United Kingdom welcomed a baby giraffe on Monday and captured the miracle of giraffe birth on camera for all to see.
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According to the Associated Press, the young giraffe acquired the injury while displaying unusual and aggressive behavior.
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The giraffe was likely attempting to protect her young calf, viewing Katy and Finn as a threat.
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Some of them are hilariously less achievable, like have an "artsy" July 4th and petting a giraffe.
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Funds raised will benefit giraffe conservation initiatives, local children's charity Ava's Little Heroes and Animal Adventure Park.
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We're fools in love with a giraffe who leads us on every damn day, but not anymore.
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An Okapi (Image: Raul654)As noted, the giraffe and okapi feature genetic sequences that are quite similar.
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Memphis Zoo The Tennessee zoo welcomed a male giraffe named Bogey on April 3 (see photo above).
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Incredibly, the largest pterosaur was the size of a giraffe, boasting a wingspan of a small plane.
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The zoo is reportedly donating a third of the money it makes to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation.
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Ecologist Dr. Derek Lee told The Telegraph that Omo is the only pale giraffe they know of.
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An adoring giraffe got a little too close for comfort during a news broadcast earlier this week.
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But if this giraffe photo is all you've got, giving up hope is probably a reasonable option.
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Next month, Toys 'R' Us is putting its famous mascot, Geoffrey the Giraffe, on the auction block.
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The company's headquarters in Wayne, N.J., are on Geoffrey Way, named after its once-ubiquitous giraffe mascot.
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It could take nine months and about 550 gallons of milk mix before the giraffe is weaned.
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Guiding us is Dagg herself, now in her 80s and passionately involved in giraffe conservation and education.
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Kimba, a beloved 12-year-old giraffe that resided in the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, has died.
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Thirty-five toys were part of the promotion, which featured the iconic Toys "R" Us giraffe mascot.
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Our 360 video introduces you to the delights of Kenya's capital, from giraffe kisses to country music.
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A baby giraffe named Jazz spent his short life as best friends with a dog named Hunter.
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The second giraffe from the right's pattern of spots is unmatched by any of the other giraffes.
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"'The Burning Giraffe' and 'The Persistence of Memory'" are DALIS, as in two paintings by Salvador Dalí.
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Some 600,000 visitors stopped by to witness the giraffe in her first six months in the city.
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The practice was also in place at UK chains Ask, Belgo, Bella Italia, Giraffe, Prezzo, and others.
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Oh, also, Ms. Weintraub is making a bit of a giraffe joke, as one pronounces "giraffe" with a SOFT G. 12D: CONTOUR MAP was a debut entry next door, but this clue, "Ataraxia," hasn't been seen in the grid before and as a concept it's due for a comeback.
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Since then multiple reports of this crude giraffe conduct have been verified by thousands of zoo visitors annually.
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The giraffe is still "traditionally" produced from 100% natural rubber derived from the latex of the Heavea tree.
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All of the proceeds from this contest will go to giraffe conservation and zoo improvement for the animals.
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"To tie in the unicorn birthday theme, we gifted unicorn plush toys by Little Giraffe," Fedotowsky-Manno writes.
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The giraffe and her calf will be moved from the reserve, but not killed, according to the family.
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In "Giraffe Birth" (2017), spittle drips from a newborn's snout, barely poking through a red, glistening amniotic sac.
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Some of the lions held the giraffe by its hind legs while another one climbed up its back.
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The zoo also plans on installing a permanent "giraffe cam" since April's livestream has proved more than popular.
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The company created giraffe emoji of April and her future offspring, available for $1.99 through their downloadable app.
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Let a zoo share a baby giraffe with millions, let someone else stream the murder of a stranger.
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I used to be called giraffe and it just makes you feel so, so alone and so scared.
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The giraffe occasionally shoots a look into the camera and into the hearts of the thousands watching her.
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Image: Wikimedia CommonsIt feels like just last week the majestic giraffe finally had its moment in the spotlight.
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Anatola Howard's short animation Giraffe Soup captures the essence of eating Chinese food at a Chinese restaurant perfectly.
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The death of Cami's calf came shortly after another Masai giraffe named Zuri's calf Ubumwe died on Nov.
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Because once you see that giraffe calf slide out, you’ll never be able to unsee it.
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And it feels like something the giraffe should be able to experience with a certain degree of solitude.
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Instead, Safari Club International is attacking one of the organizations that is making the case for giraffe protection.
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Giraffe ranked somewhere in the middle of the rankings for chess engines, but outclassed many of its contemporaries.
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Next, Giraffe started playing itself, using the real chess matches as a starting point and recording the outcomes.
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Giraffe is open source, so anyone's capable of tinkering with it should they have the desire and ability.
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Millions tuned in to watch Animal Adventure Park's giraffe cam and keep up with April's seemingly endless pregnancy.
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Those donations will be used for conservation efforts as well as giraffe upkeep at the zoo, he said.
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"Purchasing giraffe parts puts the entire species at risk," Kitty Block, Humane Society president, said in a statement.
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" Others are as cryptically revealing as a BuzzFeed personality quiz: "Are you a giraffe or a sea gull?
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It's likely that the giraffe will only be granted threatened status—meaning it won't get trophy hunting protections.
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"Purchasing giraffe parts puts the entire species at risk," Kitty Block, Humane Society president, said in a statement.
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A bro in a giraffe suit bumps me, holding a glowing spinning orb, attempting to find his friends.
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The groom's parents retired as the proprietors of the Giraffe Manor, a hotel outside of Nairobi, in Langata.
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One of the more heartwarming stories of 2017 has been people's obsession with a pregnant giraffe named April.
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Having tens of thousands of followers hasn't earned me anywhere near enough to buy a giraffe or whatever.
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Dr. Ali said a white giraffe was also seen in January 2016 in Tarangire National Park in Tanzania.
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You would think that, given its height and weight, the giraffe would be the hardest animal to weigh.
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They believed there was another threat the animals faced: the international trade in giraffe trophies and body parts.
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Giraffe brains meanwhile are used to make medicine, sold in some African countries as supposed remedies for AIDS.
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Bloomberg seemed to be making a reference to intelligence, but the phrase conjured an unsettling giraffe-like image.
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They showed the baby giraffe and his friend sleeping side by side on blankets and wandering outdoors together.
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"We finally know that Jazz didn't have a bad giraffe mother that left him," the orphanage's statement said.
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OneFortyEight, Langata In a quiet suburb of Nairobi, the art-filled OneFortyEight boutique hotel neighbors a giraffe sanctuary.
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"Her absence will be deeply felt by all who knew her -- giraffe and human alike," the zoo said.
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"And what if you took a giraffe elevator from outer space, and it brought you back?" she offered.
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The Rhino Orphanage in a Facebook post Friday said Jazz the giraffe collapsed after hemorrhaging in the brain.
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BRG bought Giraffe from Tesco Plc in 2016, before combining it with Ed's Easy Diner the same year.
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In March, a giraffe at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro became tangled in an enrichment toy and died.
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The 15-year-old giraffe twisted her leg, causing her to noticeably favor one of her other long stalks.
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Also available in zebra and giraffe prints, the low-cut triangle top would look great with a delicate necklace.
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" "The giraffe do have access to numerous shelters in the multi-acre habitat, if they choose to use them.
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The world continues to wait in anticipation for April (the now-famous giraffe) to give birth to her young.
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But, this extra-mature giraffe finally showed her face after what felt like the longest live-stream in history.
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Houston Zoo A Masai giraffe named Tyra is the most recent new mom to drop a baby before April.
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Just in time for trick-or-treating, a new giraffe calf has arrived at Ohio's Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
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Congratulations to April on her retirement from motherhood, and kudos to her giraffe insurance provider for covering birth control.
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It's the moment we've all been waiting for (those who aren't sick of April the giraffe news, that is).
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The calf was born weighing approximately 101 pounds, which is on the small side for a male giraffe calf.
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As is common with giraffe calfs, Dobby was up and walking just a few minutes after he was born.
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Some former Toys R Us executives are looking to bring back the iconic retailer — Geoffrey the Giraffe and all.
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The giraffe, born on June 20173 to mother Kesi, died on July 15, exactly one month after his birthdate.
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Could I, the man appealed in a most earnest tone, help by explaining more to him about his giraffe.
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A giraffe pregnancy typically lasts 15 months, and April’s in the final stretch, bless the poor girl.
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Of the nine subspecies of giraffe, three have increasing populations, whilst five have decreasing populations and one is stable.
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The next time someone tells you unicorns and dragons are absurd, just show them a picture of a giraffe.
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A 15-month-old rare white giraffe named Omo (after a detergent brand) was photographed by researchers in Tanzania.
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Lai started by programming Giraffe with the rules of chess and a set of data from real chess matches.
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"It is with great sadness that I am announcing the discontinuation of the Giraffe project," his forum post begins.
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The average giraffe is typically pregnant for 15 months, but April was famously pregnant with Tajiri for 16 months.
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The giraffe, April, has been pregnant for the past 15 months, and will finally give birth any minute now.
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In front of a taxidermy giraffe, I find out that Kay is 21 and studying Economics at Brighton University.
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A permanent yard cam will go up this season which will also reconnect you to your favorite giraffe family.
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Millions watched via webcam as April, a giraffe, gave birth to a 6-foot-tall (1.83-meter) male calf.
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Until this point the African mammals were classified on the species level as Giraffa camelopardalis, or simply the giraffe.
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The market for giraffe trophies is big in the U.S., according to numbers from the Center for Biological Diversity.
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Clearly this was the only way to pay tribute to the beautiful friendship that happens between giraffe and fence.
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"I had a giraffe when I was a kid that my dad got me from FAO Schwarz," Lennon said.
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Listing the animals under the Endangered Species Act would help regulate and curb the deadly trade in giraffe parts.
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It was only later, when okapi skeleton was analyzed, did naturalists realize they had a giraffe on their hands.
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I mean, don't give up hope if you've got something other than this giraffe photo to keep you going.
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You are always going to have hope that today there will be a giraffe, where yesterday there wasn't one.
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Right in front of our balcony, a giraffe walked by while a couple of zebras pranced in the distance.
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At one point, Emma pointed to a giraffe and said, "Look, Mama, it's Geoffrey" — the chain's gangly cartoon mascot.
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Then we started talking about the word 'giraffe,' which is masculine in my native Russian but feminine in German.
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He and Blondeau, toting his plush tiger, giraffe and polar bears, have rented a place on East 73rd Street.
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Giraffe-thin, white wood chairs and tables were cut with circular motifs that recalled eggs, and, by association, fertility.
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The zoo's new calf is now accepting visitors, she recently joined the herd at the zoo's public giraffe exhibit.
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The Toledo Blade reports that officials also caught a loose zebra and a giraffe that escaped during the commotion.
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Barry Wine remembers the unwashed spinach served to customers on the night he opened the Quilted Giraffe in 1975.
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Photograph by Peter Hove Olesen / AP Photo / POLFOTO We walked outside and stopped at a strong-smelling giraffe house.
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A giraffe at the local zoo has unexpectedly died and I'm sad about this, I love our little zoo.
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This, it dawned on me, was a significant moment (even though I'm not sure what a giraffe elevator is).
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A giraffe can follow a target and learn to put its foot on a block to receive hoof care.
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After entering the former hat factory, my first encounter with death is a winged giraffe climbing a palm tree.
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The story of a giraffe, Organic Smuggling Tunnel (Chunk 1 & 2) (2019), an installation featuring an inflatable giraffe, split between the Camden Arts Centre's two locations, is a metaphor for the longstanding colonial relationship between the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, where violent protests against laws proposing extradition to mainland China continue.
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It came after the defeat of a motion by southern African countries to exclude their giraffe populations from any regulation.
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The proceeds from the contest will go to giraffe conservation and the care of the residents at Animal Adventure Park.
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Giraffes Are Headed Toward ExtinctionIt feels like just last week the majestic giraffe finally had its moment in the spotlight.
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Now, with the older giraffe dead, the younger bulls are able to continue to breed and can increase the population.
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In 2000, official with the US Fish and Wildlife Service in Miami found a giraffe bust being sold for $22006,22015.
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In 1.3, official with the US Fish and Wildlife Service in Miami found a giraffe bust being sold for $100,000.
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They're celebrating the arrival of the zoo's latest newborn, a baby girl giraffe, whose mother delivered at 2:38 a.m.
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This is the second child for Vivian the giraffe, who brought a baby boy into the world in July 2016.
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They are the largest of the nine giraffe subspecies and native to East Africa, specifically southern Kenya and northern Tanzania.
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Patients at a New Jersey hospital will soon be able to take in Toys 'R' Us symbol Geoffrey the Giraffe.
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Giraffe Akili and Her Baby Bogey Moments after birth, Bogey is getting the first of many kisses from his mom.
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Sadie was pregnant, and, just like April the giraffe, cameras were installed in Sadie's barn to monitor her 24/7.
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What came next was an epic hours-long exhausting stand-off between the lions and an old male bull giraffe.
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Also known as the "forest giraffe," the okapi is native to central Africa, but can also be found in California.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A perplexed giraffe peers from behind a woman bundled in a purple printed headscarf.
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Cami is a 6-year-old Masai giraffe, who came to the Columbus Zoo in 2013 from the Nashville Zoo.
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After the giraffe succumbs, it is arranged for a photograph, its killer Gerald barely able to hold up its neck.
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Of the about 100,000 left, only 4,750 are northern giraffes and 8,700 are reticulated giraffes, the Giraffe Conservation Foundation said.
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The giraffe gave birth on Saturday to her fifth calf, a boy, at Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, New York.
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After days of obsessive anticipation, the witty mom was inspired to start her own pregnancy livestream - giraffe mask and all.
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"North, do you see the giraffe families?" the 37-year-old reality star asked her daughter from behind the lens.
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Lai said if he ever leaves DeepMind, he might well return to Giraffe, but it's not likely to happen soon.
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But one of the best things â€" nay, the best thing â€" that occurred in 2017 was April the giraffe.
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Award-winning filmmaker Carlos Carvalho died Wednesday after succumbing to injuries stemming from an on-set accident with a giraffe.
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Richard Brooker, whose family owns the Glen Afric Country Lodge, told The Telegraph the giraffe will stay on the property.
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"The results are in and we are having a baby," Patch said in July of the 15-year-old giraffe.
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WILMINGTON, Del (Reuters) - Next month, Toys 'R' Us is putting its famous mascot, Geoffrey the Giraffe, on the auction block.
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"What meme does my giraffe look like it's killing me I know I've seen it," she cried into the abyss.
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And now, for something majorly adorable: This giraffe was born in captivity, at the Warsaw Zoo, in late November 2015.
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A giraffe with a short neck was being baked in a large oven to set the dye on its fur.
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Mattel said closure of the "Geoffrey the Giraffe" brand dented its gross sales by 10 percent in the reported quarter.
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Titled "The Toys R Us Adventure," the pop-ups included interactive playrooms, massive toys, and onsite Geoffrey the Giraffe mascots.
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Dietrich — whose hilarious livestream spoof of the giraffe birth went viral last week — went to the hospital in labor yesterday.
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Hacker Giraffe sent this YouTube video to thousands of exposed Chromecast devices, warning that their streams could be easily hijacked.
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Or a multicolored enamel giraffe, its head poking through a rock-crystal cloud, set in gold and finished with diamonds.
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The giraffe now appeared to be part of a surreal painting, running across a purplish veld beneath a red sky.
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" Throwing some deserved darkness at Ms. Heart's giraffe-print horror, the trigger-witted Monét shot back, "All right, brown cow.
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They also took over the former company's other assets and brands including Babies "R" Us, Geoffrey the Giraffe, and Imaginarium.
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It can adapt to small disturbances (cutely demonstrated in the video by nudging the robot hand with a toy giraffe).
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But a tranquillized giraffe might injure itself terribly in a fall, and an animal killed with chemicals can't become food.
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The 14-year-old giraffe died Thursday after developing sudden neurologic abnormalities, according to a Facebook post dedicated to Makope.
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The Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, N.Y., recently posted a live stream of April, a 15-year-old pregnant giraffe.
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According to a statement shared on the zoo's website, a team had been monitoring the giraffe barn for weeks and
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Giraffe Concepts needs to get approval from at least 75 percent of its creditors for the CVA to go ahead.
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Giraffe fans wanting to show their excitement over Tufani's imminent new arrival can visit a "baby shower" gift registry set up by the zoo on Amazon, where gift options range from a large plastic chew toy to pruning shears for cutting its food — and of course, large blocks of molasses, a favorite giraffe snack.
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Some 106 parties to the U.N.-backed treaty voted in favor of the giraffe motion, 21 voted against, with 7 abstentions.
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Ernie the six-year-old Masai giraffe has died due to a neck injury sustained at Lehigh Valley Zoo in Pennsylvania.
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The giraffe was brought to the park with his father, 16-year-old Murphy, from the Kansas City Zoo in Missouri.
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The former 'Real Housewife' couldn't believe it when we told her what an Internet sensation the knocked up giraffe has become.
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In terms of other features, Apple says that it also brings four new Animoji, including a giraffe, shark, boar, and owl.
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Sam, a British citizen, was able to chase the giraffe away and call for help after jogging up to the scene.
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A safari guide at the Klaserie Game Reserve in South Africa captured footage of several lions attacking an old male giraffe.
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There's also, of course, money going toward upkeep of the park itself, specifically for improvements to the giraffe barn and deck.
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Along with bringing the popular live stream back online, Animal Adventure Park also announced the new schedule for the giraffe cam.
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Tesco dropped 4 percent after the supermarket agreed to sell its Turkish business and Giraffe restaurant chain in the United Kingdom.
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In addition to the lion's enclosure, Autry also illegally entered the giraffe area at the Bronx Zoo last week, police said.
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Just 18 days after celebrating the birth of Masai giraffe calf Ubumwe, the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium announced the baby's death.
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There's also four new Animoji to send as stickers in iMessage or use during FaceTime calls: giraffe, shark, owl, and boar.
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In July 2018, Animal Adventure Park, April's home in Harpursville, New York, announced the giraffe was pregnant with her fifth calf.
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After having five children in her just 17 years on earth, April the giraffe is ready to go on birth control.
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Cami's partner's name is Enzi, an 8-year-old male Masai giraffe who also came to the Columbus Zoo in 2013.
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Docrat says that her studio has a very thorough, stringent procedure to make sure nobody walks away looking like a giraffe.
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Dallas Zoo giraffe Chrystal gave birth to her second calf after a two-and-half hour labor, according to the zoo.
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Locals estimate around 30 elephants have been killed in the violence in Laikipia, along with other wildlife like zebra and giraffe.
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One thing is known for sure: if a Selena Gomez-voiced giraffe doesn't sell tickets to Universal's upcoming blockbuster, nothing will.
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Tesco bought Giraffe for 49 million pounds in 2013, when Philip Clarke was CEO and wanted to diversify its shopper appeal.
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The mama giraffe tenderly licked her calf, which began to slowly pick its head up from the floor of the pen.
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Because of the severity of Kumi's injury, a team of veterinarians made the difficult decision to put the baby giraffe down.
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While most chess engines simply run through all the possible moves sequentially as quickly as possible, Giraffe plays by simulating intuition.
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The allegation that legal hunting is responsible for giraffe population decline is an outright lie—and the data backs that up.
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Based on this data, it is clear that the HSUS petition will not stop the real current threat to giraffe populations.
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While Aella is currently the smallest of the herd, she isn't a small-fry: The giraffe measured more than 5-ft.
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With the pranksters' holiday of April Fools fast approaching, April the Giraffe could be a really long joke that duped everyone.
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In the scene, Aloy mounts what looks like a Darpa dog then fires arrows into a mechanical squid-giraffe-monster-thing.
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In the next post, Stormi can be seen cuddling up to Kylie with a toy giraffe, gazing warily at the camera.
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This thought probably would have come to you while watching a Boston Dynamics video, like the one with the robot giraffe.
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And grocer Kroger's is offering toys using the old Toys "R" Us Geoffrey the giraffe mascot with its "Geoffrey's Toy Box."
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Visitors can feed and interact with the ranch's beautiful cats, as well as a giraffe and birds, according to Yelp reviews.
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Giraffe trophies are highly sought after by Americans, with an average of around one animal imported per day, according to NPR.
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But as the picture went viral on social media this month, that dead South African giraffe became a hugely potent symbol.
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Somewhat lost in the controversy over this one giraffe is a truly troubling fact: His fate is a pretty common one.
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The West African giraffe once inhabited an area from the coast in Senegal to Lake Chad, deep in North Africa's interior.
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The 17-year-old giraffe, who became an Internet sensation during her last pregnancy in 2017, is expecting her fifth calf.
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The world is still watching and waiting in anticipation for April the giraffe to give birth to her calf on livestream.
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Thousands of Twitter users expressed outrage at Tess Thompson Talley, 20113, for killing the giraffe on a hunting trip last summer.
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Last September, a genetic analysis even revealed that there are four distinct species of giraffe, not just one, as previously thought.
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An investigator with the society's United States organization went undercover to 21 locations to track giraffe sales and talk to sellers.
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I approached him — he was hard to miss as he was built like a giraffe — and apologized for being slightly late.
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When we flashback to young Chidi's classroom in Senegal, there's a giraffe on the one chalkboard and French on the other.
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According to the Valentino website, the dress was made in a giraffe re-edition print, which was originally created in 1966.
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The significance of the most-searched words in certain states is a mystery: "giraffe" (Louisiana); "twelve" (New Jersey) and "people" (Hawaii).
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While New York City has hotels on almost every street corner, Hotel Giraffe stands out, and ranks seventh on TripAdvisor's list.
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I reapplied hand sanitizer and swung one of the Giraffe bed armholes open just long enough to adjust his nasal cannula.
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If you want someone to get out of bed early on a Saturday, tell them a famous giraffe is giving birth.
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Miniature stringed instruments hang on the wall: fretted lutes like a giraffe-necked tembur and a rawap with ornamental goat horns.
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Landrum handed me Kingston, now 3 months old, dressed in a clean onesie with a little blue giraffe on the front.
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We looked around at the patterns, looked for something with a sunshade and a handle, and he picked a giraffe pattern.
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" According to Holst, the Frösö Zoo, which is not part of the EAZA network, "had no clue what a giraffe was.
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On February 9, 2014, before the Copenhagen Zoo opened, a zookeeper let Marius out into the yard beside the giraffe house.
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After a few hours, a newly born giraffe was lying on the floor, glancing around, looking as bewildered as any newborn.
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An investigator with the society's United States organization went undercover to 21 locations to track giraffe sales and talk to sellers.
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Toys "R" Us mascot Geoffrey the Giraffe presided over a ribbon cutting ceremony opening the store to the public Wednesday morning.
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A student wears a giraffe mask during a visit from Twiga Walinzi wildlife club at Ntepes Primary School near Wamba, Kenya.
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The cutest part is when she tells the father giraffe, 'You did this to me, now put down that goddamn camera.
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The video was fun and lighthearted as it showed all the steps necessary to get a toy giraffe to a customer.
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The researchers made a point to contrast their technique with previous methods, which yield some sheep-giraffe hybrids or seemingly headless sheep.
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Noticing a musty smell coming from the toy, she cut into the plastic and discovered mold living inside the friendly faced giraffe.
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And there are other less-known markets, too, including those for pangolin meat (a delicacy), giraffe tails (bracelets) and tiger bone (medicine).
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But the story is a complex one that required performing some giraffe math (oh, I like how that rolls off the tongue).
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The Giraffe is an adapter board that gives users access to other CAN buses not exposed on the main OBD-II connector.
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So they would go the giraffe center and take photos of the giraffes; come to the orphanage and take photos of me.
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So they would go the giraffe center and take photos of the giraffes; come to the orphanage and take photos of me.
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Wearing skin-tight pants and a matching crop top, the Keeping up with the Kardashians star posted several photos of the giraffe.
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"To achieve their extraordinary length, giraffe cervical vertebrae and leg bones have evolved to be greatly extended," said Cavener in a release.
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Araoz recalled seeing a stuffed lion, tiger, even a giraffe – as well as the skins of other animals draped across the floor.
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Giraffe pregnancies last up to 15 months (please, God no), and labor lasts anywhere from a few hours to a few days.
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We all feel like honorary aunts and uncles, now that April the giraffe has finally given birth to her bundle of joy.
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After months of watching a very pregnant April the giraffe pace her pen and keep us on edge, her baby has arrived!
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Disney's Animals, Science and Entertainment Facebook page announced on Monday that Disney World's Animal Kingdom welcomed a new member: a baby giraffe.
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Alleyway with Chimpanzee 2014 A behind the scenes look at how the "Factory with Giraffe" image was created, Photo by Joshua Yeh.
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Nabisco's popular snack now features a zebra, an elephant, a lion, a giraffe and a gorilla roaming free among grass and trees.
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Jaden Smith on a surfboard was like a newborn giraffe taking its first steps... wobbly as hell but gets the job done.
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The threat to giraffes The situation is actually so bad, Lee says, that there are now four elephants for every one giraffe.
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An elderly Swiss man has been hospitalized after a car accident involving a wild giraffe at a national park in South Africa.
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On this World Giraffe Day, it's critical for the Trump administration to get serious about giving giraffes the protections they desperately need.
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The striped okapi is often described as half-zebra, half-giraffe, as if it were a hybrid creature from a Greek legend.
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Gunhild Aubert Opdal, initially the meekest, exploded wonderfully after chomping medication, doing a wobbly dance like a baby giraffe learning to walk.
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AND FINALLY ... Breakfast buddies When you stay at a hotel named Giraffe Manor, don't be surprised when friends drop by for breakfast.
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Inspired by lamb and leather, they head out to the markets to find the most succulent tagines, artisinal giraffe dolls, and instruments.
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Inspired by lamb and leather, they head out to the markets to find the most succulent tagines, artisanal giraffe dolls, and instruments.
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Captain Pfeiffer visited London Zoo for years and trained a giraffe to take a biscuit from his lips, seen here in 1933.
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Mr. Peyman acknowledged, however, that legal hunting had a relatively small impact on giraffe populations when compared with habitat loss or poaching.
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But several months later, the IUCN concluded that international trade in giraffe trophies did not present a decisive threat to the species.
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But the organization does not claim that the selected giraffe groups will be large and diverse enough to allow for indefinite survival.
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Depraved trophy hunters worldwide, whether they have a tiger in their sights or a giraffe, are abetting the destruction of the innocent.
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Some 40 percent of the giraffe population has been lost in the past 20 years and over 90 percent of the lions.
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At the nearby African Fund for Endangered Wildlife Center, also known as the Giraffe Center, guests can feed the animals by hand.
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"Atlanta" has quiet craftiness and the power of precision, right down to the faded giraffe-print sofa in a drug dealer's apartment.
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It has a custom-made 24-foot gold giraffe skeleton sculpture in a glass box and a $0003,000 Lucite-bottom swimming pool.
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A photo of Geoffrey the Giraffe holding a suitcase inside an empty store went viral, and shoppers mourned the childhood favorite chain.
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In art, fashion, and eccentric hairstyles, the arrival of the first giraffe in France in the 1820s caused a sensation in culture.
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Injanatherium was an antelope-like giraffe from the Middle East with a built-in visor of bone that jutted out over its eyes.
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And, on its own, I'm hard-pressed to imagine how switching out a sheep for a giraffe might spark any meaningful chaos. [VentureBeat]
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Because of some YouTube drama, the livestream of the giraffe waiting to give birth went viral—but nothing happened for nearly two months.
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The somewhat controversial live stream of April, a pregnant giraffe at the Animal Adventure Park in New York who's about to give birth.
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Anne Innis Dagg and J. Bristol Foster complied this information in a 'dossier' entitled The Giraffe: It's Biology, Behavior and Ecology in 1976.
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Other giraffe behaviors, like positioning themselves so their bodies receive the least possible sunlight during the day, could aid in heat loss, too.
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On Monday, the animal park announced on Facebook that a baby giraffe born there last month had been named in honor of Amelia.
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"I could not think of a better memorial for my daughter then naming a giraffe after her," Amelia's mother told WYFF 4 News.
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A Missouri man enlisted the help of a tall and spotted friend to help in a special proposal for his giraffe-loving sweetheart.
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During Mozambique's bloody civil war from 1977 to 1992, giraffe and elephant herds in the Gorongosa national park shrank by more than 90%.
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Congo's forests contain gorillas, bonobos and chimpanzees, as well as the elusive okapi, which looks as if it is half-giraffe, half-zebra.
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A mother and her three-year-old son were hospitalized after being trampled by a giraffe near their home in South Africa Monday.
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Maryland Zoo's baby giraffe Julius, has died just one month after being born – despite "Herculean" efforts by zookeepers and veterinarians to save him.
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On the other hand, giraffe populations where hunting is illegal, and has been illegal for decades, have declined by up to 21625 percent.
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The naming contest was narrowed to 10 finalists and the winner, "Tajiri," was nominated by Allysa Swilley, the zoo's giraffe keeper, Patch said.
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A position paper from the FWS said "regulation of trade in the species is required" in order to maintain the wild giraffe population.
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Countries from around the world, including the United States, agreed Thursday to regulate the giraffe trade in an effort to protect the species.
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But Aurora Health Care's annual Halloween costume contest helps ease some of that tension with adorable getups like butterfly wings and giraffe onesies.
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But Niger, the third-poorest country on earth, has remarkably reversed the trend, giving a second chance to Africa's most threatened giraffe subspecies.
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Every person not gifted with legs like a giraffe can agree that standing long jump is literally the worst track and field event.
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A fellow in a sharp suit stands alongside the head and neck of a giraffe that rises like a tree from the dirt.
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The giraffe population has declined by 40 percent over the past 30 years, according to a new report by an international monitoring group.
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Mr. Peyman said the wildlife service routinely missed deadlines, though the delay on the giraffe petition was the longest he had ever seen.
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A single cubic meter of water weighs roughly a metric ton, or about 2,200 pounds, which is roughly the weight of a giraffe.
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A giraffe had given birth a day earlier at Monarto Zoo, the Adelaide Zoo's open-range counterpart about 43 miles outside the city.
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Unable to continue studying her beloved giraffe, Dagg would spend years working to reform Canadian universities for the women who came after her.
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The giraffe population in Africa has collapsed by 40% over the last three decades, with climate change and agricultural expansion the main factors.
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With a slice of rye bread, the keeper drew the giraffe to a spot where Mads Bertelsen was waiting with a Winchester rifle.
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The giraffe, named Jazz, collapsed after suffering a brain hemorrhage, the Rhino Orphanage in Limpopo Province said in a Facebook post on Friday.
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When the giraffe became ill, Hunter seemed to realize something was wrong and did not leave the baby giraffe's side, the orphanage said.
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" — JIMMY FALLON "One of the biggest viral sensations right now is a YouTube live stream of a pregnant giraffe waiting to give birth.
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Toys "R" Us and mascots like Geoffrey the Giraffe could have just died a quiet death, secure in the annals of retail history.
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Following the bankruptcy, the company's lenders acquired the rights to the Toys R Us brand name and the iconic Geoffrey the Giraffe mascot.
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It also includes Little Giraffe Snow Leopard Print blankets, pillows, and a robe for Khloe and her new child ... for about $1,500 more.
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The baby giraffe was found to have "serious congenital defects" that would've prevented the animal from surviving long after birth, even without the complications.
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FILE - In this April 15, 2017, file photo, provided by Animal Adventure Park in Binghamton, N.Y., a giraffe named April licks her new calf.
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According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, giraffe populations on Earth have plummeted by 38 percent over the last thirty years.
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To pay homage to the fellow mom, Dietrich wore a giraffe mask to the hospital, going into labor while still wearing the silly accessory.
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A month ago, pediatric dentist Dana Chianese decided to clean Sophie the Giraffe, the favorite toy of her two toddlers, according to Good Housekeeping.
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The work, "Burning Giraffe" (1966-7), measures 20 by 26 inches — priced at $20,000 — and was reportedly inspired by the etchings of Pablo Picasso.
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For giraffes, the process of reproduction starts when a male giraffe drinks a female's urine to determine whether or not she is in heat.
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Elephant herd Giraffe Harry shared his love of Africa with Meghan last summer with a three-week trip to the continent for Meghan's birthday.
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The Chester Zoo has not yet announced the sex of the giraffe calf, but has expressed its excitement over the rare baby's holiday arrival.
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I thought I was looking at a giraffe... Stood in the doorway, you could see his body, but his head was above the frame.
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"We will re-evaluate our giraffe exhibit and take extra precautions to ensure the continued safety of our animals and staff," the facility said.
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Sometimes what the world needs is a video about what happens when a giraffe and a human/lizard/whatever like each other very much.
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The practice of "zoothanasia" was brought to the public's attention in 2014 when four lions and a healthy young giraffe were put to death.
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The sequencing of the giraffe genome, it would appear, is a scientific effort that's extending beyond the scope of just zoology and evolutionary biology.
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According to the zoo's Sunday Facebook report, while the giraffe-child is now "sticking out" of April, she is still not yet in labor.
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Born at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2008, Jamili, a reticulated giraffe, came to the North Carolina Zoo in 2009.
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On the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, the historic, 1932-built Giraffe Manor sits on 12 acres of private land within 140 acres of forest.
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Stanley the Giraffe is standing tall and doing perfectly okay ... contrary to reports the famous exotic animal was harmed during the devastating California wildfires.
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The unique location in this isolated wilderness provides travelers with panoramic views of Namibia's distinctive desert-adapted wildlife, including elephant, giraffe, oryx and springbok.
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There'd been other attempts at chess engines taking advantage of machine learning, but, according to Lai, none of them were as successful as Giraffe.
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Or, they can explain how the Angolan giraffe population has grown by 28503 percent when the species is legally hunted on a sustainable basis.
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It's literally just an uncomfortable looking giraffe, pacing around, in a pen that appears to be too small for any real kind of comfort.
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I dodged the most hazardous materials as I landed and he moved on to execute a short-necked giraffe with a large, phallic sword.
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Patch revealed that a new female giraffe named Johari will take over breeding duties along with April's former mate, Oliver, at Animal Adventure Park.
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Despite that, the giraffe is still listed as "least concern" on the IUCN Red List, which indicates the conservation status of plants and animals.
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The result was a much-buzzed-about cavern of decadence with the designer's signature mash-up on display (including an eight-foot stuffed giraffe).
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A livestream of a pregnant giraffe waiting to give birth has struck controversy online after alleged animal rights activists successfully had the stream removed.
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Restaurant brands signed up in the first wave include Byron, Pizza Express, Pizza Hut, TGI Friday's, Frankie & Benny's, Chiquito, Coast to Coast and Giraffe.
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Giraffes are commonly found throughout Africa, but their numbers have dropped in recent years by nearly 2628 percent according to the Giraffe Conservation Fund.
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As the population of the world's tallest mammal has plummeted, groups have petitioned for the giraffe to be protected under the Endangered Species Act.
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White american savage who is partly a neanderthal comes to Africa and shoot down a very rare black giraffe coutrsey of South Africa stupidity.
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While labor and delivery can be a stressful and tiresome feat, Dietrich couldn't help but have a little more fun with the giraffe mask.
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Such is the curious state of modern Texas ranching, that a giraffe among the oak and the mesquite is an everyday sort of thing.
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The mother kept pacing back and forth a few yards in front of us while signaling the baby giraffe to hide behind the bushes.
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One of the most famous kindergartens in France is the Crèche de la Girafe, which has a giant giraffe poking through the entire school.
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"I am beyond thrilled to welcome this newest giraffe into our herd," Mike Bona, animal keeper at the L.A. Zoo, said in a statement.
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A final photo showed Hunter sitting in front of the closed door of the room where he and the giraffe had spent time together.
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"I'm gonna miss Geoffrey the Giraffe," Jan Kniffen, the CEO of consulting firm J. Rogers Kniffen Worldwide Enterprises, told CNBC's "Squawk Box" Thursday morning.
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La Machine's other animal creations—which count an elephant, a dragon-horse, and a giraffe, among others—have all been staged in public space.
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A baby giraffe was born -- but it wasn't April's -- and it's been nearly two months since her baby-watch live stream first went up.
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Or, you could always play it safe and just go as a giraffe, a clown, or one of the thousands of other non-problematic options.
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They include virtual basketball where a hoop appears on the device's screen, an interactive feature with the company's giraffe mascot Geoffrey, and a baby nursery.
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Ali, who used to live at the Neverland Ranch, wandered over to a courtyard behind the giraffe and elephant barn during her 20-minute getaway.
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Giraffe populations have been rapidly decimated across Africa to the point that the species is threatened with extinction, according to a prominent international conservation group.
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He pays for our tickets ($73 each), but I pay for us to feed a giraffe ($5, worth it) and for a Vitamin Water ($4).
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As one of the world's most iconic animals, it is timely that we stick our neck out for the giraffe before it is too late.
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"This pregnancy is an important contribution to a genetically healthy Masai giraffe population," Eric Cole, acting director of wildlife and welfare at the zoo, said.
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As soon as I saw that Little Giraffe had the unicorn plush stuffed animals, I knew I needed them as a gift for Molly's party.
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Kylie posted a photo of herself with her new 'do on Instagram, where she's in front of a giraffe at what looks like a zoo.
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However, the lions seem to have bitten off more than they could chew, so to speak, as this giraffe wasn't going down without a fight.
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How much giraffe and other animals in the park will be affected by the drilling, road construction and other development now under way is unclear.
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Douglas's power basically only comes in handy if you have a really tall dog or giraffe who doesn't feel like bending over to get water.
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The famous giraffe from Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, New York will also be moved to a barn where she'll be provided with senior care.
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The same red and yellow logo remains but a zebra, elephant, lion, giraffe, and gorilla can now all be seen wandering through a grassy landscape.
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"I hope someone will at least continue exploring using [machine learning] in chess," he wrote, even if that means in some other direction from Giraffe.
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To support his frail immune system, the zoo staff administered two transfusions of giraffe plasma, rounds of antibiotics and IV fluids, according to the statement.
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Stanley the giraffe was one of the animals moved to the "barren enclosure," since trying to transport large animals far distances can lead to injury.
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Britain's biggest retailer, Tesco Plc, is to sell its interests in Turkey and its Giraffe UK restaurant business, people briefed on the group's plans said.
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The model and host of Lip Sync Battle took to Twitter on Tuesday with a serious question: What meme does her toy giraffe look like?
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The giraffe is considered "vulnerable" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, but the FWS has no protections of its own for the species.
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A four-foot-tall stuffed-giraffe mascot looked on as cheery staff, in warmup jackets emblazoned with the phrase "Love your data," herded people through.
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An American hunter is facing widespread backlash after posing with the body of a rare black giraffe she killed during a trip in South Africa.
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But part of the answer to that question lies in how the giraffe evolved these attributes, a puzzle partially solved by sequencing the giraffe's genome.
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The giraffe population had declined by 40 percent over the past three decades and stood at about 97,600 at the time the findings were released.
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Sure, those who were heavy into it would eventually find their anthems, like "Brass Goggles" by Steam Powered Giraffe or "Steampunk Revolution" by Abney Park.
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But that's a bit like averaging the behaviors of a cat, a dog, a giraffe, and a shark: How can you tell what's doing what?
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No real giraffe (polar bear, etc.) needs to be abused to create another fantasy in which nonhuman creatures behave like cutesy, cartoonish versions of people.
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Two months earlier, the Boparan Restaurant Group announced it was going to close more than a third of its Giraffe and Ed's Easy Diner outlets.
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JOHANNESBURG — A baby giraffe that was befriended by a dog after he was abandoned in the wild has died, a South African animal orphanage said.
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The dog was there when the giraffe died, and sat in front of the empty room for hours before going to its carers for comfort.
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The most illuminating comparison was between the giraffe and its closest relative, and only other living member of the Giraffidae family, the okapi: As you can see, the okapi has a kind of long neck, but not, like, a giraffe-long neck, despite the fact that these two species diverged only 11 to 12 million years ago and share about 19 percent identical genes.
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From the book: Things made me sentimental: a pair of sprinting spikes, a tennis racquet, sheet music on the music stand, a small acrylic painting of California golden poppies, a stuffed baby giraffe that had lost all its filling — I had sewn the tear back together but the giraffe remained skinny and floppy — a handmade print of a purple penguin with a bowler hat.
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The rich prehistory of the giraffe family may be gone to us, but we can still appreciate what's left of this proud, weird tribe of mammals.
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It's 160 degrees outside, a massive sandstorm could appear at any moment, and you're trying to capture footage of a pack of lions chasing a giraffe.
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Visitors wishing to celebrate the new calf and her giraffe herd should check out the L.A. Zoo's website for information about interactive feeding experiences and more.
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Michael Brown, a researcher at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, has, over the past four years, photographed virtually all of the Rothschild's giraffe living in Murchison.
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Most giraffe meals are mouthfuls of leaves stripped from branches by the animals' prehensile lips and tough tongues, which are impervious to needle-sharp acacia thorns.
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Geoffrey the Giraffe is out of a job, along with about 33,000 other Toys "R" Us employees, according to multiple outlets including USA Today and CNN.
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - A giraffe at a Seattle zoo is expected to give birth to a calf within a week — and there is even a gift registry.
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He argues the connection to Panda and Giraffe just increases the amount of data accessible to Eon, and developers or tinkerers can take it from there.
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The mother-child duo aren't completely alone: They are sharing an enclosure with Cami, another female giraffe who is expecting a calf in the near future.
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The most famous baby giraffe received his name Monday on "Good Morning America" by Jordan Patch, the owner of Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, New York.
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As 9to5mac spotted, you will be able to record a video message and replace your head with a giraffe, an owl, a shark or a warthog.
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With all this promise of adorable baby giraffe action, many are wondering if the zoo will set up its own live stream of the expectant mothers.
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Speaking of standing, the baby giraffe was on their hooves 20 minutes after coming into the world and walking around confidently 45 minutes after their delivery.
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Jamili, a 9-year-old female giraffe, was found unresponsive in the living quarters of her habitat at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro on Tuesday.
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And then I've got a green giraffe which I won at a fair—it was the only one left and I felt really sorry for him.
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Giraffes are listed as vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, with some giraffe subspecies listed as endangered.
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While the most believable answer is that this figure is a person carrying a golf bag, we personally like to believe it was indeed a giraffe.
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Her 16-month pregnancy became a bit of a frantic joke online, as those religiously watching the giraffe expressed their exasperation in memes and Facebook comments.
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If he were to continue work on Giraffe, he wasn't sure he could do so in a way that wasn't going to get him in trouble.
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The giraffe calf died at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore on Saturday after a tumultuous month-long battle for life, the zoo said in a statement.
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Aella (pronounced "eye-la"), a 2-month-old Masai giraffe calf, just made her big public debut at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
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We create a slew of meme-orials for the giraffe(s) we have lost and we fall in love with them in a whole new way.
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ET when the live stream of April the giraffe — who, after two months of teasing, finally gave birth to a healthy male calf last weekend — ended.
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The research began five years ago, when Janke was approached by Julian Fennessy, the co-director and co-founder of the Giraffe Conservation Foundation in Namibia.
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A scarcity of jobs in this impoverished, arid landscape meant people were hunting wild giraffe and antelope for meat, and chopping down trees to make charcoal.
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Sadly the 18-foot-tall giraffe was killed in the accident, Isaac Phaahla, the park's general manager of communications and marketing, said in a press release.
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" Keepers are unsure how the giraffe found itself wedged in the railing since "it's not like a railing where a child could put their head through.
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The numbers: Giraffes are commonly found throughout Africa, but their numbers have dropped in recent years by nearly 28503 percent according to the Giraffe Conservation Fund.
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Our setup comprises two Giraffe Print cubes and two Pistachio Green cubes, but you can stack to your heart's content (some cat owners get really creative!).
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The hunter in the giraffe photographs was identified as Tess Thompson Talley of Kentucky by news organizations that said she had emailed them to defend herself.
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Fennessy said that these donations don't impact his work for the IUCN, where he is supposed to make objective decisions about the future of giraffe populations.
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There in a meadow, lay a newly killed giraffe; it was as if the lion had taken to thanking the hunter for having saved his life.
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When I first walked in, a giraffe (from the neck up), a swan, and the mounted head of a unicorn seemed to give me the eye.
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Following the Toys R Us bankruptcy, the company's lenders acquired the rights to the Toys R Us brand name and the iconic Geoffrey the Giraffe mascot.
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" In its farewell to the giraffe, the orphanage said, "You have taught us so much in the last three weeks, and we will remember you fondly.
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Its annual Easter egg hunt, as well as the Geoffrey Giraffe birthday parties it hosts, have been called off, sources familiar with the situation tell CNBC.
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Read more: I found a $10 alternative to the Instagram-famous Giraffe Manor in Kenya, which runs over $600 a night — and it's right next door
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Geoffrey the Giraffe was a nationally recognized symbol, and the company pitched the latest toys to children through years of expensive catalog, television, and radio marketing.
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"The giraffe is in the wild much rarer than African elephants, much rarer," Tom De Meulenaer, CITES' scientific services chief, told a news briefing before the vote.
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Apologies to April the Giraffe, but Claudia Jordan and all other black people just don't care if she ever gives birth ... at least that's what Claudia thinks.
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Photo: Maryland Zoo On Sunday, animal lovers around the globe expressed their condolences for Julius, the baby giraffe that was born at the Maryland Zoo in June.
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Mobile recruitment website Giraffe won the prestigious Seedstars competition for start-ups last year, and will use the boost in funding to tackle South Africa's unemployment crisis.
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The photo of Geoffrey the Giraffe walking an empty aisle with a suitcase in tow heading off to a "very long vacation" touched the hearts of many.
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The second and third were to the southern part of Murchison itself, across the Nile, which bisects the park and acts as a barrier to giraffe movements.
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Cody Hall took his girlfriend, Makayla Blakey, on a behind-the-scenes tour of the giraffe enclosures at Dickerson Park Zoo in Springfield, Missouri, on September 24.
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Included in these assets are mascot Geoffrey the Giraffe, the Babies 'R' Us brand, and numerous kinky domain names the company purchased, like adult-toys-r-us.com.
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Jen Fields, Director of Communications for the zoo, explained on the attraction's website that the mother giraffe, Cami, began to show signs of labor around 3 p.m.
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Clowns, balloons and a live giraffe greeted Monaco's royal twins Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella Sunday as they made their debut under the little principality's big top.
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The Giza zoo found itself facing that unusual question in 2013, when a baby giraffe called Roqa reportedly took its own life after being harassed by visitors.
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"This was definitely a surprise," Julian Fennessy, co-founder of the Giraffe Conservation Foundation and lead author of the study published today in Current Biology, told Gizmodo.
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If the powers that be were going to feed me tautologies out of 1984, should I believe their giraffe was pregnant, just because they said it was?
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"As one of the world's most iconic animals, it is timely that we stick our neck out for the giraffe before it is too late," he says.
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The basis of the petition's argument lies in false data and unsupportable generalizations that equate the legal hunting of certain giraffe species and populations with illegal poaching.
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If it sounds like a less-than-triumphant return for Geoffrey the Giraffe that doesn't get you overly excited to hit your local TRU again, don't worry.
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But while we're sure this 9-month-old giraffe cares about that issue, it cares more about proving his devotion to Jacobs, its best new human friend.
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According to IUCN, the world's giraffe population has dipped from 163,000 in 1985 to 97,000 in 2015—a whopping 40 percent drop in the last 30 years.
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So, she's looking for some help from the Internet Investigators of the World for a matter of utmost importance: identifying what meme her stuffed giraffe looks like.
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" Tess Thompson Talley "Prayers for my once in a lifetime dream hunt came true today,"Ms Talley,"Spotted rare black giraffe bull,stalked him for quite awhile.
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The ruling comes after various wildlife groups petitioned the federal government in April 2017 to include the giraffe under the ESA as at least a threatened species.
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The ruling comes after various wildlife groups petitioned the federal government in April 2628 to include the giraffe under the ESA as at least a threatened species.
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A position paper from the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) said "regulation of trade in the species is required" in order to maintain the wild giraffe population.
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Then, in a riveting sequence of spreads, a green vista of sculpted animals — giraffe, emu, rhinoceros — turns autumn-colored and finally reverts to plain, bare-branched trees.
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In front of the wall is a giraffe, whose head is just high enough to look over the wall to see the girl on the other side.
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According to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, the animals are extinct in at least seven countries in Africa and can live up to 25 years in the wild.
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Sure, they had guys in tutus wearing his face as a mask, but why not something truly weird, like a flaming giraffe just creeping in the background?
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In May, the 22,22020-member-strong Unicorn Collective group set a new record with a pair of Indigo Giraffe-print pointed-toe flats that sold for $353,235.
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For those who adore Sophie La Giraffe Baby Teether, you'll love that they've partnered with Charlie Banana to create a Sophie Classic One Size Hybrid and AIO.
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It shows a child in an easy chair reading to six other children and a giraffe and a bear, all leaning over to listen to the story.
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Fred Bercovitch Fred Bercovitch is one of the most renowned giraffe experts in the world and a member of the IUCN specialist group on giraffes and okapis.
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That's why guests are willing to shell out $1,070 for one of six Giraffe Treehouses, which include the chance to feed the animals from the treehouse veranda.
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EXCLUSIVE: Teen Mom Amber Portwood Opens Up About Her Battle With Depression, Plus the 'Giraffe Mom' Gives Us an Update Come back every day at 8:30 a.m.
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In case you were stuck under a rock the last few months, the internet was fixated with a giraffe named April at a petting zoo in New York.
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Giraffe populations, long thought safe, showed "dramatic declines" between 1985 and 2015, and are now listed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as endangered.
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Apple is also working on its iOS 12.2 update, which includes new giraffe, shark, warthog, and owl Animoji and an endorsement of AT&T's fake 5G E network.
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Two lovers (one of House Rhino, the other of House Giraffe), from two different exhibits recently breached the (literal) wall that separated them in the name of romance.
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There have only been a few truly viral Facebook Live events — BuzzFeed exploding a watermelon, Chewbacca mom, and the long wait for a pregnant giraffe to give birth.
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Memphis Meats wouldn't say whether they could one day make weird meats like giraffe, but we get it, it's probably better to start with a chicken tender first.
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Companies are smart to offer new tools, but many are too "gimmicky," says Sapna Shah, principal at Red Giraffe Advisors, which makes early stage investments in fashion tech.
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This marks the end of a months-long journey, where millions of animal lovers kept a watchful eye on the pregnant giraffe, who is now a proud mom.
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Fennessy hopes that giraffe conservation success stories, along with the latest dire status report from the IUCN, prompt more national and international action to safeguard these amazing animals.
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The investors said they plan to revive the Toys "R" Us and Babies "R" Us brand names and intellectual properties, including Geoffrey, the Toys "R" Us' giraffe mascot.
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"The genetic analysis shows that there are four highly distinct groups of giraffe, which apparently do not mate with each other in the wild," the conservation group said.
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When Dave Lewis became Tesco chief executive in 2014 analysts had speculated the firm's stake in the coffee shop chain and its Giraffe restaurant chain could be sold.
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While the world waits for April the New York zoo giraffe to give birth on her controversial live stream, Kipele is pulling a Beyoncé and dropping surprises overnight.
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With his project, he's hoping to fill in some blanks about the movements of a fragmented giraffe population, which he hopes will aid conservation efforts across the continent.
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It just can't be a coincidence that April the Giraffe, the perpetually pregnant and viral video star, is named April and that April Fools' Day is coming up.
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To prevent a tragedy like this from occurring again the giraffe complex is being thoroughly reviewed, even though all animal areas in the zoo undergo safety checks daily.
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They could not wait to flip open "Dear Zoo," by Rod Campbell, a lift-a-flap book, to discover an elephant, a giraffe, a lion and other animals.
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The company is selling its intellectual property, which includes its name, Geoffrey the Giraffe logo, and the Babies 'R' Us brand, to raise money to repay its creditors.
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Sylvie paraded around the Natchez hotel room, holding her preschool backpack stuffed with a baby doll, a goat and a giraffe, and declared she wanted to go home.
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But more than half of all giraffe calves die before they're six months old because they're often the targets of predators like lions, hyenas, wild dogs and crocodiles.
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The number of Sophie the Giraffe toys sold in France in a single year is nine times the number of all the giraffes that still live in Africa.
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He said he also shot a giraffe, shown lying on its side with a rifle propped against his torso, and a leopard, which was draped across a rock.
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Then, finally, it came into view: a brachiosaur, plodding among eucalyptus trees, rearing up and stretching its neck to nibble at the treetops like a skyscraper-size giraffe.
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Grocer Tesco was among the top fallers, dropping 3.7 percent after the supermarket had agreed to sell its Turkish business and Giraffe restaurant chain in the United Kingdom.
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The next generation of children cannot be told we lost the lion or the cheetah or giraffe because we did not have the vision or fortitude to fight.
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Orphanage staff members had assumed that the mother giraffe had abandoned the baby for a reason, and had suspected an illness, Arrie van Deventer, the orphanage's founder, said.
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Hell, it looks the cash went so far as to pull Geoffrey the Giraffe out of retirement -- who posed with 50 and Sire in a sweet photo-op.
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As part of the liquidation of assets, it had plans to auction off its intellectual property, including the company's name, website, and its brand mascot, Geoffrey the Giraffe.
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"Giraffe, girafe, giraffa (English, French, Italian) — all derive from the Arabic zerafa, a phonetic variant of zarafa, which means 'charming' or 'lovely one,'" Allin explains in the book.
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Store associates staged mock funerals in the lobby of Bain's corporate headquarters for the Toys R Us mascot, Geoffrey the Giraffe, and organized rallies in store parking lots.
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For instance, Bramatherium was a thick-set Asian giraffe with four, spiny skull projections that formed an erect forehead shield, making it look like some kind of fuzzy dragon.
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The ancient giraffe, regally named Decennatherium rex (pronounced "de-sen-a-theer-ee-um recks"), was unearthed in the Cerro de los Batallones fossil site just outside of Madrid.
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Preservation may be a tall order, but if these last holdouts go the way of the sivatheres and Decennatherium, it would mean the loss of the entire giraffe family.
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The pair are currently resting up in the zoo's giraffe barn and may have access to the public side yard periodically over the next few days, the zoo said.
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An American scientist and her 3-year-old son are seriously injured after they were attacked by a giraffe near their home on a wildlife preserve in South Africa.
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The female giraffe who attacked the mother and son had recently given birth, and Sam said in the statement he realizes she was likely trying to protect her calf.
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The store cited several reasons for its demise, including insurmountable debt, competition from online retailers, and rising costs of labor; many critics added that Geoffrey the Giraffe and co.
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"We have to know the vital statistics of every animal at the zoo, from the tallest giraffe to the tiniest ant," said ZSL's assistant curator of mammals, Teague Stubbington.
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Whether she is striking a yoga pose on a roof (do not try at home) or taking a selfie with a giraffe on a safari, Pons lives it up.
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Online. We hope they decided on that location change before anyone had to set up the enormous elephant and giraffe topiaries, rose-filled walls, and other elaborate floral decorations.
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It might be difficult to see your mother dry hump a stuffed giraffe or talk about how weird it was to have sex when she was pregnant with you.
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The zoo was happy to report that the giraffe-mother-to-be and her mate Oliver will be moving outside as the weather warms up and the snow melts.
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You’d better be absolutely sureâ€"like, tattoo-it-on-your-face sureâ€"before you glue yourself to the livestream of April, the giraffe about to give birth.
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But it doesn't stop there: Selena Gomez will be featured as a giraffe named Betsy, comedian Craig Robinson as a mouse, and wrestler John Cena as a polar bear.
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In Tanzania, where the trophy-hunting industry has a stronghold, Masai giraffe populations have collapsed from 28500,6900 in the 2628s to only 28503,22019 animals estimated to be alive today.
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From there, you can construct a creature out of whatever parts you want, giving him or her an elephant head, a giraffe neck, a tarantula torso and pig legs.
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At the end of any given match, Giraffe essentially gave the moves used by the winner a more favorable rating because those moves ultimately turned out to be good.
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Fans of all things Disney can catch a glimpse of the new member of the family on Kilimanjaro Safaris — just look for the smallest, sweetest giraffe on the savanna.
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It's getting to bring my stressed-out pregnant neighbor a bag full of baby goodies without clicking through a godawful online registry or spending $35 on a rubber giraffe.
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"The accident occurred after filming with animals had come to an end and the giraffe was moved off the set by animal wranglers who were in attendance," it said.
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Photos of a Kentucky woman posing with a black giraffe that she killed on a hunt last year have sparked outrage after an African news outlet shared the story.
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The Humane Society, a petitioner in the case, found in an investigation last fall that more than 85033,000 giraffe parts were imported to the U.S. between 2006 and 2015.
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This week in unlikely animal friendships: An anti-poaching dog at a South African wildlife orphanage, has taken a liking to a 10-day-old baby giraffe named Jazz.
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The New York Post reported the woman allegedly posted video of the incident on her Instagram account, and also allegedly posted video of herself inside the zoo's giraffe exhibit.
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Alongside stylized images of flora and fauna, Ms. Macho has encountered surprises: a giraffe, an image derived from a government campaign for a healthy diet and the Incredible Hulk.
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International NGOs pressed Niger to save the giraffe, and Niger stepped up, adopting a conservation strategy, putting in strict laws to preserve habitat, and imposing big penalties for poaching.
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They can also generate low double-digit returns for the owners who are prepared to take the initial risk of funding them, according to renewable finance specialist Green Giraffe.
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I think I honestly believed that if I did not have the option to write badly, I would simply evolve, like that Lamarckian giraffe, into a more efficient creature.
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When Meyer grew six inches from eighth grade to his freshman year of high school, Meyer said, he looked like a baby giraffe on the mound, gangly and uncoordinated.
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The giraffe was likely the art department and props team giving a nod to the frequent mentions of giraffes on the show (almost always in reference to Tahani's height).
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You can, after all, buy giraffe heads as decorations for your home for around $9,000 online, or pay for a craftsperson to stretch the animals' skin into custom furniture.
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Here, two days earlier, I had seen the lion in a walk-in freezer, alongside trays of rats, a sitatunga, and a severed giraffe leg, upright in a corner.
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"Makope has been a bright spot in our giraffe herd from the moment of her birth on the Savanna exhibit 14.5 years ago," the zoo said in the post.
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When the IUCN/Traffic analysis requested by the six African countries was published anonymously on the CITES website in March 2019, he set out to find out who the authors were, believing their recommendation that the trade in giraffe parts did not represent a threat to the animal's future was wrong — it did not matter whether it was the most important factor, what mattered was that the giraffe population was shrinking overall.
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Earlier this week, news went viral that two white giraffes were spotted in Kenya — a completely white female and her baby giraffe, which had barely visible spots on its skin.
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Debates over whether it begins with a hard "g", as in "gift", or a soft one, as in "giraffe", can make discussions about religion or politics look civil by comparison.
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Sadly, this isn't where the loss ends: on Saturday, the Columbus Zoo issued a press release announcing the death of Cami, the adult giraffe who underwent the emergency C-section.
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"We appreciate concern but the bogging down of email servers and other platforms is the exact reason the giraffe cam will need to be pulled," the zoo responded on Facebook.
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Take a three-year-old to the zoo, and she intuitively knows that the long-necked creature nibbling leaves is the same thing as the giraffe in her picture book.
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It teamed up with US grocery chain Kroger to set up "Geoffrey's Toy Box" sections in 600 stores during the holidays, a reference to the Toys "R" Us giraffe mascot.
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Despite being outnumbered by the lions, the giraffe barely budged, and even tried to walk away as the cats kept trying to hold it down and climb up its neck.
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A giraffe of a girl came in next with long, straight black hair and a single row of sequins wrapped around her forehead, announcing that she was from Marc Jacobs.
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The day after the reports prank went viral, Giraffe published an open letter saying they'd quit hacking due to panic attacks and anxiety aroused by their fear of getting caught.
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A press release from the zoo indicated she had accidentally become entangled in an enrichment item that had been used by the zoo's giraffe herd for many years without incident.
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Picture this: a pair of sharp hooves and a giant head covered in slimy goop force themselves, almost in slow motion, out of the most delicate part of a giraffe.
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"There are interesting philosophical questions too, because we don't know how to tell when a giraffe perceives the sun, but we know they are affected by this," Hartstone-Rose said.
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Simmons explained that nobody witnessed the "rare incident," and while giraffe mothers often protect their young, the location of Kumi's mother and the other giraffes was unknown at the time.
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But things start to get pretty crazy after a few glasses of the good stuff, and let's just say a Lady and the Tramp-like moment with a giraffe ensues.
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When you look at the real data, you must then ask the question, if it's not legal hunting that is contributing to the decline in certain giraffe populations, what is?
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Some animals, like the large hairy armadillo, sleep upwards of 20 hours a day in captivity, while others, like the giraffe, might only clock 10 minutes daily in the wild.
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Parts of the space — like a spaceship pod the size of a Volkswagen Beetle and a talking seven-foot giraffe — resemble exhibits from a children's museum, and for good reason.
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A family of polar bears stood in one corner, a young giraffe in another; a flight of white pigeons hung from the ceiling, and baby owls peered from the shelves.
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As many as 2,000 elephants live in the corridor, depending on the season; so do zebra, giraffe, buffalo, warthogs and several kinds of antelope, from slender dik-diks to impala.
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The statue is gigantic: 17 feet tall, three times the size of an actual man, the height of a mature giraffe — another fact that no one had ever told me.
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For an hour on a weekend afternoon, I didn't think of anything except the microcosmic forest in front of me and whether its climate would suit a tiny rubber giraffe.
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Where Kahlo painted human body parts as a way to show her physical and emotional pain, Calatayud Morán gives the same treatment to a moose, a giraffe, and a bear.
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Guests can choose from one of Alfajiri's three private villas tucked on a cliff overlooking a private strip of Diani Beach, a giraffe-patterned infinity pool and the Indian Ocean.
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They show a zebra, an elephant, a lion, a giraffe and a gorilla roaming free side-by-side in a natural habitat, a sweeping savanna with trees in the distance.
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BuzzFeed News has obtained a copy of the letter, which cited scientific data showing that from 2006 to 20203, more than 3,800 giraffe trophies were delivered to the US alone.
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Pictures and videos of smiling, laughing children walking through imitation snow caves and interacting with the Toys "R" Us mascot, Geoffrey the giraffe, are circulating now on Instagram and Facebook.
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Featuring a cute Snapchat giraffe filter, Witherspoon's selfie hilariously read across the bottom, "Go clean your dirty room" — likely addressing her two older kids Deacon Reese, 15, and Ava Elizabeth, 19.
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She points out that the giraffe she killed was 18, too old to breed, and had killed three younger bulls who were able to breed, causing the herd's population to decrease.
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The newborn belongs to Shani, a 6-year-old Masai giraffe residing at the Sacramento Zoo, who posted aww-dorable pics of the leggy animal on its Facebook page on Monday.
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She looks like an elegant giraffe, all legs and arms and abs, and what was almost more impressive to me was how effortlessly she demonstrated the push-ups and jump squats.
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Sam said he sees the incident as "an unfortunate act of nature, where the giraffe saw [his] wife and son as a threat to her young one," according to the statement.
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The Frekvens hacks range from verging on practical—a handle and side compartment for a Boombox say—to a giraffe and all manner of chicken legs, cannon wheels, and detonator handles.
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According to a report published in 1553, by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, giraffe numbers fell from between 2155,2000 and 22012,000 in 1985 to fewer than 98,000 in 2015.
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Tufani, an eight-year-old female giraffe at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo, began showing behavioral changes early in the week, indicating approaching labor, lead zookeeper Katie Ahl said in a statement.
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And if you own a compatible Toyota or Honda, you can tie those two devices to a third, the Giraffe, which plugs into those cars' driver assistance systems, according to Comma.ai.
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Under the glare of fashion's most influential editor, I felt more like a galloping giraffe than a supermodel as I trotted past Delevingne (in sparkly Yves Saint Laurent) on the catwalk.
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The latest in "Animals that Aren't April the Giraffe Giving Birth" news, two cheetah moms recently gave birth to large litters at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Fort Royal, Virginia.
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Plied with a little bit of food, Fiona the baby hippo, April the giraffe and animals of all sizes (from rescue skunks to elephants) happily made their predictions know this week.
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Although the internet was initially enamored by the giraffe's beautiful gift of life last year, avid livestream watchers couldn't hide their impatience when there still wasn't a baby giraffe by February.
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Once the little one (excuse me, big one - he's over six feet tall) was born, the zoo held a contest to name the giraffe calf, requesting a $1 donation per vote.
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