Right now there are only about 4,750 northern giraffes and 8,700 reticulated giraffes.
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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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They find a land of giraffes, but the giraffes are too busy having tea to hear the cries of the bears.
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INSOMNIAC GIRAFFES Much like platypuses, giraffes are total oddballs that look like they've been built from spare parts sourced from other species.
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The first, as articulated by Fred Bercovitch of the advocacy group Save the Giraffes, has to do with emotion: Everybody likes giraffes, Bercovitch says.
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Giraffes The Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in Omaha says the giraffes may behave similarly to elephants and head back to their barns, thinking that nighttime has descended. 7.
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The crowd -- like the giraffes -- ate it up.
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The study, which examined samples from 195 wild giraffes living in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy wildlife reserve in central Kenya, found that 5.1 percent of the giraffes were resistant to antibiotics.
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Giraffes — the world's tallest animal — are vulnerable for extinction.
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A bunch of giraffes — their spinal cords as well.
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The first story "Giraffes" tells is one of endangered animals.
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There were just 96,000 giraffes in the wild in 2016.
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Side note: who knew giraffes were huge Lays chips fans?
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Leopards, giraffes, and gazelle rounded out her circle of life.
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Giraffes, cats, gorillas, frogs ... the list goes on and on.
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We would look over and see a tower of giraffes.
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I currently tend to all the animals, except the giraffes.
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Giraffes at the Mogo Zoo in Mogo on January 8.
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They also performed a remarkable song, "The Giraffes Go to Hamburg," Mr. Previn's setting of a rueful passage from an Isak Dinesen memoir about two captured giraffes on a cargo steamer bound for Hamburg.
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And she says this animal obsession thing goes way beyond giraffes.
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Giraffes can live up to be 25 years old, Passeser added.
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The typical gestation period for giraffes is 14 to 15 months.
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In some ways, giraffes have far more brutal pregnancies than humans.
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Fighting giraffes in Ithala Game Reserve, northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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But no horses, deer, giraffes, kangaroos, big cats, bears, or whales.
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My favorite part was learning about the giraffes and the lions.
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In the last 40 years, giraffes have declined about 60 percent.
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It turns out that giraffes have a similar system of communication.
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A trailer shows off everything from fish (cooked) to giraffes (alive).
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What do you think caused the giraffes to look this way?
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What animals besides giraffes have been found to display this trait?
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Masai giraffes are listed as endangered by the ICUN Red List.
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In 1985, the group said, there were as many as 163,452 giraffes.
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Eve wasn't happy with me ignoring her in favour of the giraffes.
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Image: Julian FennessyIt seems we've been wrong about giraffes since, well, forever.
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Giraffes naturally hide signs of labor so as not to alert predators.
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We know, we know ... how much for the giraffes in the window?
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According to Lee, giraffes are understudied, partly because of their slow movements.
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Animal stories can't always be about exciting whale videos or pregnant giraffes.
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"It puts into perspective how little we know about giraffes," Janke says.
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The zoo says the other giraffes are "behaving normally" following the loss.
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But unlike elephants, giraffes aren't protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
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There are nine subspecies of giraffes, and three of them are endangered.
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But this photo of two giraffes doesn't show April and her newborn.
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On average, giraffes have a 25-year lifespan, according to National Geographic.
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It's also home to Kordofan giraffes, lions, cheetahs, leopards and honey badgers.
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I do all kinds of things: sunflowers, giraffes, views of the ocean.
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"Waiting for Giraffes," at least initially, seems to have a broader scope.
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Hunt identified the giraffes as Waylon, 3, Beltre, 2, and Quinn, 1.
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This sudden death has been difficult for those who cared for the calf since birth, but they aren't letting this shocking loss prevent them from providing the best care for the surviving giraffes and the future giraffes to come.
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Remotely operated orange-and-white cranes lean over them like reverent metal giraffes.
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She did confirm that the two giraffes were found close to one another.
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"It's good to give awareness to giraffes," he said in a phone call.
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Contains some upsetting images of dead giraffes and a discussion of giraffe sexuality.
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Except, because everything we humans love we somehow destroy, giraffes are now dying.
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Today, guests can enjoy visits from resident giraffes in search of a treat.
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In many zoos across the world, different populations of giraffes are routinely hybridized.
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Giraffes are in the process of a "silent extinction," experts reported last year.
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Since the death of Marius, thirteen giraffes have been culled in EAZA zoos.
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The Giraffe Center uses proceeds to help breed and resettle endangered Rothschild's giraffes.
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But on the other hand, some people just straight up trolled her: And some people ignored her request entirely, instead opting to show her similarly-posed toy giraffes of their own: Who knew there would be multiple aggressively posed toy giraffes?
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One of the most famous giraffes in the world is retiring from internet stardom.
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It is know for its elephants, black rhinoceroses and giraffes, among many other species.
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It's a well-known fact that the world's giraffes collectively possess thousands of neckties.
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What's more, giraffes catch these brief moments of slumber in crazy pretzel-like positions.
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It is known for its elephants, black rhinoceroses and giraffes, among many other species.
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With news like the declines of the giraffes, it's hard not to believe it.
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Our sources say they hit Petit Tresor to scoop up 3 giant stuffed giraffes.
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Omo lives in the Tarangire National Park, where Lee and his wife research giraffes.
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So he wanted to know if he was mixing giraffes in ways he shouldn't.
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From giraffes to ostriches, the park offers unique opportunities for interactions with friendly animals.
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It is known for its elephants, black rhinos and giraffes, among many other species.
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Of course, we aren't prescribing wild giraffes antibiotics because they're (you guessed it) wild.
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By the end of a long day, I had seen zebras, antelopes and giraffes.
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Some scientists have recently argued that modern giraffes are in fact four distinct species.
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But "Waiting for Giraffes" doesn't lean hard into its occupation-as-a-zoo theme.
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And the real-life lions eat meat, and meat comes, among others, from giraffes.
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Although the vegetation was lush, we saw elephants, hippos, giraffes and baboons beyond counting.
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Many dressed in costume — including giraffes, bells, cars and even Big Ben — for charity.
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It was a weird idea (the fuck is with giraffes!?), but he committed to it.
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There, the twins got close-up views of lions, zebras, giraffes, hippos, rhinos and more.
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His farm at Kingakati adjoins a game park teeming with imported giraffes, rhino and lions.
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Giraffes typically live up to 25 years in the wild and even more in captivity.
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With their long necks and elegant strides, giraffes have captivated humanity for thousands of years.
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Other animals in the same class include alligators, clouded leopards, giraffes, wolves, coyotes and jackals.
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Sure, we've read about "lesbian" albatrosses and "gay" giraffes, necrophilic penguins, and super-horny bonobos.
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Animals like penguins, bears, chimps and giraffes were given pumpkins stuffed with their favorite treats.
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"We hope Omo's popularity will raise global awareness for the problems facing giraffes," he says.
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There're even those who began trying to convince people that in fact giraffes lay eggs.
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"They fall down two meters because mother giraffes don't lie down," said zookeeper Sil Waumans.
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"What are they adding to the world?" he once asked Gervais and Merchant about giraffes.
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Conservationists say there is a strong argument for listing giraffes under the Endangered Species Act.
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It also makes costumes that look like avocados, man-eating sharks and giraffes, among others.
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Poaching has stolen most of its wildlife; lions, giraffes and desert elephants are sorely endangered.
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In a 10-minute presentation, he made a strong plea for the protection of giraffes.
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Trilobites A near-perfect fossil unearthed close to Madrid appears to be an ancient European ancestor of giraffes, representing a new species in the family and one that had two sets of bony bumps on its head rather than the single set of modern giraffes.
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Giraffes face "silent extinction", the Natural Resources Defense Council, a conservation group, said in a statement.
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Viaducts have been crafted so that families of large animals, such as giraffes, can pass under.
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I absolutely love giraffes and I love my city, a perfect couple for a wonderful photo.
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Giraffes gestate for about 15 months, and the zoo trained a camera on her starting Feb.
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Image: Julian FennessyTo be fair, subtle differences between different groups of giraffes had been noted before.
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If April the giraffe's live stream saga proved anything, it's that the world loves baby giraffes.
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A group of people are trolling a popular YouTube livestream by saying that giraffes lay eggs.
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Instead, he riffed on racist chickens, judgmental horses, and freaked-out giraffes (sadly, no April reference).
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The institute has developed a computer program that identifies individual giraffes by their unique spot patterns.
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The rare forest giraffes in Britain are not the only animal affected, said Hofman, citing elephants.
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She uses pet-friendly products to bling the animals or turn them into giraffes and zebras.
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"There are pictures of giraffes, ostriches, one elephant, lots of camels and hunting scenes, " says Quartermaine.
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It goes without saying that giraffes don't really look like any other animal on the planet.
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We're not going to have the circus come through and have giraffes and shit like that.
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Giraffes, African elephants, leopards, Cape buffalo and white rhinos have all been electrocuted in various countries.
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Abdullahi H. Ali, who founded Hirola, said it was the first known video of white giraffes.
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Mr. Peyman said it was not clear whether the agency would ultimately decide to protect giraffes.
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"Many species, including giraffes, benefit from this investment in conservation," the group said in a statement.
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"Sport hunting" conjures up images of rich white guys getting their jollies killing lions and giraffes.
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We were standing by a claw-grab machine that was filled with anatomically imperfect plush giraffes.
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Wary of predators, giraffes coil their bodies and doze for a few minutes at a time.
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Both the Toledo Zoo and the Chester Zoo in the UK welcomed baby Giraffes this week.
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Lamarck is always ridiculed in evolution classes—he's the guy that said that the reason giraffes have long necks is that giraffes would stretch their necks every day, and stretch and stretch and stretch, and all that stretching led them to produce babies with longer necks.
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Giraffes are getting all the love lately, but there are other zoo animals being born every day.
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At birth, baby giraffes weigh in at about 100 to 150 pounds and are 6 feet tall.
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That's almost 5 tons, roughly the weight of a pair of Toyota Priuses or mid-sized giraffes.
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Though they don't often get the headline space that elephants garner, giraffes are actually a threatened species.
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In the same field there's a family of creatures that look like two-legged giraffes, calmly grazing.
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I mean, who doesn't want their baby to wear juicy strawberries, green dinosaurs, or long-necked giraffes?
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The last time they went, her son became dizzy with laughter, spotting lions, elephants, giraffes, and hyenas.
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"We're preserving relics of two very distinct groups of giraffes that were morphologically very different," he said.
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It is a fable that can literally be told as a bedtime story about "sharing" and giraffes.
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For $10, I was able to feed giraffes and learn about the center's conservation and breeding efforts.
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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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Wildlife activists welcomed the move to list nine species of giraffes on CITES Appendix II that regulates trade.
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Giraffes are renowned for being the tallest land mammal, and the Masai subspecies can mature to 17 ft.
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After Chianese's story made the rounds on social media, parents responded by cutting open their children's beloved giraffes.
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The amusement park and drive-through safari had 20 giraffes on-site prior to last month's tragic incident.
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On, how we anxiously waited for the breaking New York Times investigation into the emotional lives of giraffes.
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Over the past five years, there's been major progress compiling population data on giraffes and decoding their genetics.
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But however the scientific debate shakes out, it's a poignant example of just how mis-understood giraffes are.
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Fort Wayne Children's Zoo said this was their first such incident in the four decades of having giraffes.
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If chaos means giraffes roam the streets and shrimp fly through the air, is that really so bad?
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The giraffes come to the windows of the manor in the mornings while the guests are having breakfast.
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Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge features views of savannas with 30 species of African wildlife, from zebras to giraffes.
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There are fewer than 22019,000 giraffes left in Africa, fewer than the number of elephants, according to conservationists.
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Trilobites You would think that giraffes, the tallest land animals in the world, would be hard to overlook.
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If you've been agonizing over how to communicate your love of broccoli or giraffes, consider your prayers answered.
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There are fewer than 28500,6900 giraffes left in Africa, fewer than the number of elephants, according to conservationists.
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"The giraffes and ostriches date from the period before 6,000 BC, when those species lived here," he says.
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Back in 28503, my organization and four other groups filed a petition to list giraffes under the Act.
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They hope to establish a new population so that these giraffes can find a new home to thrive.
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Ms. Ho said that giraffes can breed beyond 18 years of age, and that two subspecies are endangered.
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Now, read the article, "Rare White Giraffes Cause a Stir in Kenya," and answer the following questions: 1.
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"Wild" is a gentle, observational movie for animal-lovers; "Waiting for Giraffes" has its eye on geopolitical issues.
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There are about nine hundred giraffes in EAZA institutions; five subspecies are represented, and there are some hybrids.
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Today, you can see endangered Grévy's zebra, leopards, reticulated giraffes, wild dogs, kudu, and elephants in increasing numbers.
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In this case, trying to figure things out has literally driven scientists to measure the surface area of giraffes.
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It seems as if the curious giraffes were just trying to smell the bouquet of flowers Foster was holding.
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Hotz has over two dozen 3D printers in the garage building plastic casings for the Eon, Panda, and Giraffes.
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"There's been an increase in private sector and governments sharing of giraffes across regions in recent years," he said.
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Female giraffes are usually pregnant for 15 months, and April is about a month overdue, according to zoo officials.
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The two takes on "Vanishing Grace," though, are achingly beautiful, with the second, bracketed "Childhood," accompanying that giraffes scene.
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Yet above the door is a relief of colorful giraffes, a gift from his artist friend Charles Cary Rumsey.
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Environmental groups are formally threatening to sue the Trump administration to compel officials to institute new protections for giraffes.
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The goal was to help Fennessy in a conservation effort where he relocates giraffes into parks or protected areas.
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"These 90,000, split up over four species, makes it immediately clear that the giraffes are threatened," Dr. Janke said.
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The multilateral trade agreement will regulate and track, but not halt or prohibit, trade in giraffes and hunting trophies.
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The zoo's Instagram is already boasting photos of a very serious Bengal tiger and a couple of nosey giraffes.
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And since this one includes llamas, dancing pandas, and cute giraffes, it's officially one of the app's best yet.
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By bite #3, I was done and shared the rest with peacocks, giraffes, and gorillas at the Oakland Zoo.
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Trump visited Nairobi National Park, home to black rhinos, lions, leopards, cheetahs, buffaloes, giraffes and zebras, among other animals.
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Aided by their night-vision goggles, they passed by the giraffes before rattling up and down the hilly terrain.
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Among the biggest threats to giraffes is habitat loss driven by the expansion of cities, agriculture and timber harvest.
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Two giraffes had positioned themselves smack in the middle of the dirt road and were rubbing their necks together.
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Thank you for pinch-hitting on our weekly newsletter while Farhad is off on safari, taking selfies with giraffes.
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"I was always telling the writers, 'We've got to get past the tall giraffes and fat hippos,'" Hollingsworth said.
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There were skeletal wooden crocodiles, giant tortoises and giraffes as well as palm fronds, bamboo and red rock desert.
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Senegal, along with the Central African Republic, Chad, Kenya, Mali and Niger, nominated giraffes for inclusion in the convention.
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Senegal, along with the Central African Republic, Chad, Kenya, Mali and Niger, nominated giraffes for inclusion in the convention.
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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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Come for the chance to spot giraffes, elephants and hippos, stay for the endlessly soothing chirps of birds and crickets.
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Fans and followers can still watch April and the giraffes at Animal Adventure Park on the zoo's livestream on YouTube.
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When giraffes go to work do you think they put the tie at the top or bottom of their necks?
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Giraffes can live for up to 26 years, and this one had probably been around the block a few times.
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I start looking on Amazon but quickly lose focus and get off task, watching videos on YouTube of baby giraffes.
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A drone gives you the freedom to watch elephants, rhinoceros, giraffes, gazelles, lions and other native animals from your couch.
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The decision comes as the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service made moves to potentially protect giraffes under the Endangered Species Act.
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Animals at the park include leopards, buffaloes and giraffes grazing in open spaces, with the city's skyline in the background.
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Like all giraffes, April gave birth to her child standing up, leading to a 6-foot drop for the newborn.
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The egg movement even has multiple Facebook pages, one with more than 900 members called #TeamEgg (Giraffes DO Lay Eggs).
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All in all, there are as few as 80,000 giraffes remaining in Africa, 40 percent less than 15 years ago.
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Water was so precious that local cattle herders lit fires at water holes to keep giraffes and zebras from drinking.
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The zoo is home to lions, giraffes, polar bears, and gibbons, which can travel in the trees at amazing distances.
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It will regulate and track, but not halt or prohibit, trade in giraffes and hunting trophies like skin and bones.
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As we found out during Sunday's episode of Planet Earth II, giraffes are significantly tougher than their spindly frames suggest.
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The number of giraffes in sub-Saharan Africa has dropped by nearly 40 percent since 1985, according to the organization.
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Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton Rothschild took selfies; models like Karlie Kloss and Coco Rocha shifted as if penned giraffes.
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The animals, rare white giraffes, inspired awe across the world after the Hirola Conservation Program posted a video of them.
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Some, however, say that listing the giraffes under the Endangered Species Act could have an adverse impact on their population.
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I did, though, see those necking giraffes, as well as plenty of snorting rhinos, brilliantly hued birds and lumbering elephants.
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Giraffes have been keeping a secret from us for a long time: They're really four different species, not one. 34.
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Since retiring, he has acted as a lobbyist for the CIC hunting association and campaigned against the protection of giraffes.
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A video recorded by a bystander shows two giraffes running away from the flames as smoke pours from the barn.
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They're still worthy targets for your camera, but so are zebras, giraffes, exotic antelopes and almost countless kinds of birds.
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Image: Sangwoo Mo, Minsu Cho, Jinwoo ShinThe images showing how their system swaps out several sheep for giraffes are more impressive.
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We too often assume they'll survive one generation to the next -- that those elephants or giraffes will be out there, somewhere.
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The point is, scientists still don't really know why giraffes have long necks, and it's unlikely there's just one simple explanation.
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After he was killed in 1993, anti-narcotics agents moved the camels and zebras to other zoos (the giraffes predeceased him).
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NINE THOUSAND years ago the Sahara desert was a grassland, inhabited by hunters who made rock paintings of hippos and giraffes.
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Though this form of TB is predominantly linked to cows, any animal can become infected -- including elephants, lions, giraffes and wildebeests.
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The gestation period for the world tallest mammal is 15 months, and the baby giraffes drop head-first to the ground.
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In time, I grew to become more surrealistic — waterfalls in the middle of Chicago, moon shaped cityscapes and of course, giraffes.
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These trees, called phylogenies, tell us that humans once shared an ancestor with mushrooms, giraffes with beetles, elephants with elephant shrews.
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Masai giraffes are currently considered a vulnerable species, with only 32,000 left in the wild due to poaching and habitat loss.
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Fennessy wanted to run some genetic tests to learn how similar giraffes in distinct parts of Africa are to each other.
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" Gervais tweeted, "Giraffes are now on the 'red list' of endangerment due to a 40% decline over the last 25 years.
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Paths wind among carvings of giraffes, bears, snakes, birds and fanged monsters, as well as those of a few baseball players.
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Researchers have found evidence for multilevel societies in some other large-brained mammals, such as monkeys, elephants, giraffes and sperm whales.
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Unlike albinism, animals with leucism continue to produce a dark pigment in their soft tissue, meaning the giraffes' eyes were dark.
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The giraffes displayed the characteristics of a genetic condition known as leucism, which inhibits pigmentation in skin cells, Dr. Ali said.
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Ten animals, including three giraffes, were killed during a fire that broke out at an Ohio safari park on Thanksgiving evening.
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The park is full of giraffes, zebras, antelopes, elephants, buffalo, hippos, crocodiles and birds, so visitors are guaranteed to encounter wildlife.
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Male giraffes, once they are one or two years old, will fight with each other when they share space with females.
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Our boys kept a running tally of all the animals we saw: monkeys, giraffes, zebras, ostriches, gazelles, antelope, warthogs, even elephants.
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In this brainteaser by Gergely Dudás, there are 19 giraffes — nine pairs with identical spots and one outlier with different spots.
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The Kalihari is a massive indoor water park with a safari theme and statues of lions, gorillas and giraffes dotting the corridors.
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But despite all this attention, our species doesn't have a particularly good grasp of the evolutionary history of giraffes and their relatives.
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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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Sure, privacy is more of a human concept and giraffes don’t really understand the internet (or do they???), but still.
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The graphic-novel section is the visual representation of fragments, summaries, and annotations that constitute Dalí's script for Giraffes on Horseback Salad.
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Also last month, a group of conservationists and governments put giraffes on the official watch list of globally threatened and endangered species.
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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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Those who get married here can see zebras and giraffes, among other species, while exchanging their vows, according to Disney's wedding website.
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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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Equally strange are the muffled drones of the wooden bullroarer from Papua New Guinea, which resemble the strange nocturnal hums of giraffes.
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Of these resistant giraffes, 30 percent of them were resistant to more than one antibiotic, such as amoxicillin, oxytetracycline, and co-trimoxazole.
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The problem is that giraffes could easily spread these antibiotic resistant E. coli to agriculture, animals that humans eat, and humans directly.
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The Kenya Wildlife Service was called to the reserve after it was reported the giraffes hadn't been seen in quite a while.
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Dr. Ali said his team would like to follow and monitor the white giraffes seen in Kenya to document their life spans.
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Our Jewish family stood out like giraffes in our small Kansas town: stared at and commented on but rarely targets of hostility.
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Actors on stilts, costumed as larger-than-life animals — ducks, peacocks, giraffes — infiltrate the dance floor and are enveloped by the crowd.
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The two white giraffes in Kenya — spotted by rangers at the Hirola Conservation Program in early August — have a genetic condition called leucism.
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You want your children to live in a world that supports wild elephants, giraffes, rhinos, bees, pangolins ... and, of course, human life, too.
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At the same time, many of the gestures observed in this study could never be seen in dolphins, giraffes, or platypuses, for example.
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But scientists don't know that—in fact, there are at least six hypotheses as to how and why giraffes got their long necks.
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Perhaps the increased surface area relative to mass resulting from a long neck has something to do with temperature regulation in giraffes. Perhaps.
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Tufani could potentially give birth in as soon as a few days, though Ahl cautioned that birth windows for giraffes can be prolonged.
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To that end, giraffes have evolved a rather large left ventricle, and a blood pressure that's about twice as high as other mammals.
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"We don't think we will see the giraffes doing back flips that day," said Ed Diebold, Riverbanks' director of animal collections and conservation.
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Remarkably, the standing wave equation can be used to understand why animals–like leopards, zebras and giraffes–have the markings that they do.
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In early December, a global group of conservationists and governments put giraffes on the official watch list of globally threatened and endangered species.
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The idea is based on the science of pheromones, the chemical signals that creatures from gerbils to giraffes send out to entice mates.
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Instead, the FWS could regulate imports and exports of giraffes and their body parts, including trophies, as well as interstate selling and buying.
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About the size of a horse, the okapi is a close relative of the lanky and long-necked yellow giraffes we know today.
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Baby giraffes typically come out of the womb at over 100 pounds and six feet tall and this little one seemed no difference.
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" One reporter, describing a convoy of American destroyers, wrote, "All the giraffes, zebras, leopards and tigers ever assembled exhibit conventional patterns in comparison.
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These boys and girls — even the ones wearing clothes that are essentially ageless — have the gangly, bony limbs of sour-faced baby giraffes.
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African Monarch butterflies fluttered about as giraffes drank from watering holes in the distance, bending awkwardly like tripods on the verge of collapse.
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"Bulls (male giraffes) only really care about two things," the park noted in the description of the live stream, "fighting and the unmentionable."
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That's the idea of the Mother's Day Tea Time With Giraffes at Safari West Wildlife Preserve and African Tent Campin Sonoma County, Calif.
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He said this while holding his cat in a booth with a safari scene as the backdrop: inflated monkeys, giraffes, elephants and lions.
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One bright spot: The numbers of West African giraffes are on the rise, numbering about 400 now, up from 50 in the 1990s.
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For millions of years, giraffes and their relatives (giraffids) were found all over the Old World—and many of them were flat-out strange.
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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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"Giraffes are her favorite animals, and I really wanted to give her an experience she wouldn't forget," Hall, 24, from Willard, Missouri, tells PEOPLE.
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Classed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species in 2016, giraffes are the world's tallest mammals.
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Naturally, giraffes hide signs of labor - as to not alert every predator around, that they and a new calf will be vulnerable to attack.
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In the new update to the list, the IUCN has moved giraffes from the category of "least concern" to "vulnerable," citing massive population loss.
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Magical creatures may not exist, but at least we all have the chance to see the next best thing: a pair of white giraffes.
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The cover, illustrated in shades of blue, orange and brown, shows pairs of lions, giraffes and monkeys on the hunt for the airborne pancake.
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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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Giraffes were classified as "vulnerable" in 2016 by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, which manages the list of endangered species worldwide.
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He's unintentionally funny ("I had an ex-girlfriend who didn't believe in giraffes…"), and unpretentiously fanning out over The Cribs and The Gaslight Anthem.
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But in giraffes specifically, the researchers learned, some were more vulnerable than others because of whose genes they had and how old they were.
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Dancers dressed as zebras, giraffes, lions and antelopes opened the sequence before the actress Lou Naiming appeared with her outsize rear and voluminous dress.
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Designating giraffes as endangered or threatened would place restrictions on their import into the United States and make federal funding available for conservation efforts.
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Two rare white giraffes, a mother and her male calf, were killed by poachers in Kenya's Ishaqbini Hirola Conservancy, the park's director said Tuesday.
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Since then, photographs of hunters posing triumphantly with the bodies of animals such as giraffes and a family of baboons have stirred global condemnation.
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Yet you can still feed giraffes and baby elephants from within the city limits and see Maasai warriors ordering lattes in red-checkered blankets.
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Fun facts: Giraffes sleep a maximum of two hours each day, and their coats are just like snowflakes, no two have the same pattern.
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Visitors sported animal ears and elaborate face paint and wandered past the enclosures of Humboldt penguins, towering giraffes and Sumatran tigers, drinks in hand.
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Humans have taken notice, becoming infatuated with giraffes from the first moments of the animals' lives, and revering their iconic, alien gangliness across the globe.
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When it comes to subject matter, this artist doesn't discriminate — photos of giraffes, landscapes, leaves and even fallen ice cream cones have made the cut.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Halloween came early at London Zoo on Thursday as its giraffes, squirrel monkeys and gorillas enjoyed some special treats in carved-out pumpkins.
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During the day, guests can track endangered rhino, desert-adapted elephants and giraffes and then retire to their private veranda to take in their surroundings.
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This much we knew, but scientists weren't sure about the exact biology involved, and how giraffes, from a genetic perspective, evolved their panoply of characteristics.
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In November, the IUCN adopted a resolution to rally action to save the remaining giraffes, including mandates for increased funding and monitoring for the species.
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That's why conservation and animal-protection groups are delivering a letter today to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that documents giraffes' ongoing silent extinction.
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The conservation charity estimates the number of giraffes in the wild has fallen more than 40 percent in the last three decades to just 100,000.
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Djogo hears out their concerns, and in turn hopes to help them understand why the giraffes are important for Niger's development in the long run.
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Their final list encompassed 5003 populations of 36 species of herbivorous mammals — including elephants, giraffes, zebras, hippos and wildebeests — in 126 protected areas throughout Africa.
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His photos of Luangwa's parks bring you up close to ferocious hippos, vibrant birds and affectionate giraffes — and let you pretend you're the only visitor.
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There were a lot of spots where no animals appeared, although the zoo houses almost 240,2000 individuals (including centipedes, armadillos, catfish, giraffes, lions and woodchucks).
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Visitors to the 100-acre drive-thru park can feed several animals on their drive, including giraffes, zebras and bison, according to the park's website.
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About New York The windows of the gallery and the floors of its aisles are lined with animals, in herds and singly. Lions. Giraffes. Monkeys.
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As one of the caretakers explained, giraffes spend sixteen to twenty hours per day eating — and they consume as much as 75 pounds of food.
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Staying there is like having a savanna in your backyard because you see herds of free roaming animals, like giraffes and zebras, from your room.
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The area is abundant year-round with zebras, wildcats, giraffes and elephants, including herds of wildebeests that migrate past the camp from November to March.
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And we should do so quickly, since the okapi's numbers have plummeted in recent decades and because giraffes are now looking down the barrel of extinction.
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Zoo owner Jordan Patch went on Good Morning America on Monday to make the announcement, and explained the giraffes new name, Tajiri, means "hope" in Swahili.
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Giraffes are constricted by human development; they're poached for their tails, which are used as bracelets, and for their meat, according to the African Wildlife Foundation.
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Two giraffes were struck by lightning and killed in what is being described as a "billion-to-one" incident at a Florida wildlife park last month.
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On May 3, Lily and Jioni, two of 18 giraffes in Lion Country Safari in Loxahatchee, were in their pasture when a sudden thunderstorm rolled through.
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What awaits outside the doorstep is a Pride Rock–esque presentation with fewer giraffes and zebras and more mounted ladders, clicking cameras, and creepy-looking dolls.
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The country's closest resemblance to a wildlife sanctuary is Fuji Safari Park, where visitors can drive cars to areas where animals such as giraffes roam freely.
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They all hit up the popular Lion & Safari Park in Broederstroom, South Africa and got a little taste of everything ... from petting cheetahs to feeding giraffes.
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" In one scene, as the pair sit on a hilltop overlooking giraffes walking across the land, Bourdain turns to Bell and says: "Seventeen f—ing years.
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"There has been relatively little research done on giraffes in comparison to other large animals, such as elephants, rhinoceroses, gorillas and lions," the conservation group said.
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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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Omo survived her first year, which Dr. Lee claims is the most dangerous time for giraffes, given their small size and the area's many natural predators.
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Among the mom, dad and grandma's baby bonanza haul -- those ever-popular giant stuffed giraffes, a car seat, and several blue items ... including swaddles and onesies.
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They're also a vivid illustration of how much we still have left to do to ensure that giraffes won't disappear because of poaching and habitat loss.
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Twenty-six hundred square feet can hold only so many 18303th-century weather vanes, old carousel giraffes and camels and display drawers with St. Laurent necklaces.
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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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Dr. Janke said that he's not sure why it took so long for researchers to figure out that giraffes don't all belong to the same species.
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Giraffes, long favored by hunters for their compelling spots and long limbs, are one step closer to obtaining federal protections that would likely deter international hunting.
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Two scientists at an Australian research institute have found that everything from seal pups to wild turkeys to elephants and giraffes can be killed by lightning.
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The population of giraffes, the tallest land animals on the planet, has declined about 40 percent in the last 30 years, according to the groups' petition.
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Countries on Thursday also voted overwhelmingly to regulate international trade in giraffes, an endangered species, overcoming objections by southern African states and drawing praise from conservationists.
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Hippos wallow in Virunga's rivers, and the park is home to 2,000 plant species, as well as elephants, antelopes, warthogs, giraffes and the rare, elusive okapis.
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Even if there were a space in a herd of celibate bachelor giraffes, it would be better to reserve the spot for a more unusual specimen.
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More recently, animal rights groups have called for a ban on the imports of giraffes, which some believe should also be listed as an endangered species.
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Although bright white giraffes aren't very common, there have been sightings before — and every time a candid white animal is immortalized in a photo, people freak out.
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So instead of merely living at Hacienda Nápoles, the man constructed a public zoo—a bootlegged menagerie filled with smuggled exotica such as elephants, giraffes, and zebras.
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Before I was a mom I would have never known the fascination with llamas and giraffes and anything with floppy ears or anything with a squishy nose.
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Fayetteville, Arkansas, student Trey Coulter attempted to ask Gabriella Foster to prom at the Wild Wilderness Drive Through, while standing in front of two very curious giraffes.
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Trump rode around in open-air vehicle, taking photos on her iPhone and using binoculars to get a closer look at zebras, giraffes, impalas, rhinos and hippos.
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Now, some may say that these giraffes sort of look like penises, but this innocent little girl explains that these are simply normal animals without belly buttons.
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She also noted that giraffes and antelopes typically get along in the wild, helping and communicating with each other in the case of threats or external attacks.
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Until now, researchers had thought that all giraffes belonged to only one species, made up of up to nine subspecies that looked slightly different from each other.
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The Trump administration lent its support to new measures that would help protect giraffes abroad the same week it dramatically rolled back protections for species at home.
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The zoo believes Geoffrey now could use his celebrity to inspire future generations to protect giraffes, whose populations are estimated to be at less than 100,000 worldwide.
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Some people poach giraffes because of food insecurity in their villages, while others poach the animal for sport, keeping their tails as a symbol of high status.
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In fact, the researchers found that two-thirds of the divergent genes in giraffes are related to either skeletal, cardiovascular, or neural development, and sometimes all three.
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It could say that giraffes do not deserve protections under the Endangered Species Act, or that the federal government's limited resources should be focused on other species.
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The new tree puts giraffes and okapis relatively far away from each other evolutionarily, Dr. Grossman said, adding to the understanding of these animals and their relationship.
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Travelers keen on seeing a large concentration of wildlife including lions, elephants, zebras and giraffes need look no further than Tanzania or Botswana, Ms. Biggs Bradley said.
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This popular 134-room hotel has four restaurants overlooking Nairobi National Park, a game reserve where you can feed baby elephants and see giraffes and other wildlife.
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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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On Kilimanjaro Safaris you can ride on an open-air vehicle through a wildlife reserve where you may see baboons, cheetahs, elephants, giraffes, lions, warthogs and wildebeests.
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Old Bet's arrival marked the start of the traveling menagerie business, as Mr. Bailey and his neighbors toured the region with monkeys, giraffes and other exotic animals.
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The camp is transported by mokoros (traditional dugout canoes), while guests spend their days on horseback cantering elephant trails and spotting wildlife like buffalo, giraffes and antelopes.
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Everything from rhinos to lions to giraffes are routinely slaughtered or enslaved for sale to criminal wildlife traffickers, a continental ecological meltdown worth an estimated $23 billion annually.
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Pennywise may be scary-as-hell, but that doesn't mean that every clown is out for blood; some are content just painting kids' faces and making balloon giraffes.
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And to the surprise of no one, the brand really delivered outrageousness with their selections, from breakfast with giraffes to rose quartz reusable straws, see our favorites below.
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According to a source, Kardashian bought several pink products at both Petit Tresor and Couture Kids, like a rocking chair and a variety of stuffed animals, including giraffes.
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According to a source, Kardashian bought several pink items at both Petit Tresor and Couture Kids, like a rocking chair and a variety of stuffed animals, including giraffes.
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Together with a powerful coalition of wildlife conservation nonprofits, the HSUS petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list giraffes as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
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"The first year of life is very dangerous for wild giraffes because they are small enough to be killed and eaten by lions, hyenas, and leopards," he says.
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You'll find adorable rustic snowmen, knit cactus plants, and even sets of colorful flamingos and giraffes — you can bet these are going to grace my tree this year.
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Under legal pressure, the Trump administration finally took the very first step in the listing process, releasing a preliminary finding in April that giraffes may qualify for protection.
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The animals got their unique coloring from a condition known as leucism, which is a genetic condition that causes the giraffes' skin cells to fail to produce pigmentation.
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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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Bush Princess shares its space with L'Équipée, which sells hand-carved chairs with kanga prints and funky sculpted lights in the shape of animals like hippos and giraffes.
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Watkins ("Rude Cakes") conjures another homey yet mind-bending story in this bedtime tale about an enormous rabbit, regular-sized carrots, some trucker penguins and bus-driving giraffes.
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The 67-year-old American is director of the San Antonio-based Save the Giraffes, and has taught as a professor at universities in Japan and South Africa.
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Captive giraffes of both genders tend to be removed from their family groups before they reach sexual maturity, to avoid inbreeding; many are then transferred to another zoo.
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The captive-birth rate had been increasing; as Holst explained, this was in part because zoos had learned that giraffes breed better in groups than in marital pairs.
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The threat to giraffes is so great that the Red List upgraded the species from the "least concern" category to "vulnerable," skipping over the intermediary "near-threatened" designation.
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It is a dire time for giraffes, whose numbers have plummeted 40% over the past three decades -- from more than 150,000 to fewer than 100,000, the foundation says.
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But, after sunset, their sculptural counterparts illuminate the zoo's grounds, as do fanciful renditions of lions, giraffes, zebras, rhinos, elephants, ring-tailed lemurs, cranes, dolphins, and sea turtles.
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I like to joke the doctor had previously only performed eye surgeries on giraffes and stuff, and I was his first human, and it just didn't go so well.
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Working with the giraffes was awful as they were stuck in these tiny enclosures, and sometimes they don't even go out—and I remember thinking, This is absolutely horrendous.
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What Blakey didn't know, though, was that Hall and zoo officials had been working together for weeks on a surprise proposal that incorporated Mili, one of the park's giraffes.
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And the scientists are just studying a history of gecko species in Australia, so we can't extrapolate that much about, say, what's going to happen to giraffes in Africa.
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A new study of Indian jumping ants determined that ants have the same sort of thing going on, but without all of the singing or giraffes and zebras bowing.
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There are penguins, giraffes, a swimming sloth, a bear scratching its back — and, of course, a few peeks into those triumphant underdog moments the original series portrayed so spectacularly.
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The New Mexico zoo recently discovered that three of its giraffes, Naira, June and Camilla, are all pregnant and due to give birth between May and October, reports KOB4.
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Giraffes are categorized as "vulnerable to extinction" on the IUCN Red List, and their number has decreased by about 40% in the last three decades, according to April's website.
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The experts there will likely concentrate on the primates, the elephants, the giraffes, the birds and the reptiles, most of which have demonstrated interesting behavior in prior eclipse events.
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Nairobi National Park, which covered 117 square kilometers (45 square miles) on the outskirts of Nairobi, is home to endangered black rhinos, lions, leopards, cheetahs, giraffes and diverse birdlife.
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And finally, but not exclusively, poachers are driving numbers of elephants, pangolins, rhinos, giraffes and other creatures with body parts valuable on the black market to worryingly low levels.
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The Greenville Zoo's website states there are currently 118 Masai giraffes in zoos around the world; 65 are females and 52 are males, while one is of undetermined gender.
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What Lee has learned is that the number of giraffes in Africa has declined drastically over the past decade due to habitat loss and the market for bush meat.
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In Namibia, the government is auctioning off elephants and giraffes as part of a strategy to cope with a drought that has left one in five Namibians without food.
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Only about 97,85033 giraffes remain in their native Africa today, compared with about 150,000 in 1985, the green groups said in their petition, citing data by the international agency.
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Shortly after his SpaceX comments, Mr. Zuckerberg struck a cheerier note by posting some "good news" from the region: A family of baby giraffes was seen on his safari.
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With perfect harmony upended, giraffes clomp out of nowhere, vitamin bottles the size of oil barrels roll down the streets, and a flock of wriggling prawns fills the sky.
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But by 1996, drought, poaching, and habitat loss from growing human and livestock populations brought the population crashing down to near 50; the last giraffes were in southern Niger.
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The remains of two stunning white giraffes that lived at a Kenyan wildlife sanctuary were found in a skeletal state, rangers at the Ishaqbini Hirola Conservancy said on Tuesday.
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Conservationists also hope that a listing could elevate the giraffes' plight, which they said was often overshadowed by higher-profile initiatives to protect lions, elephants and other distinctive animals.
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"While it's shocking that the Trump administration made a possible finding for wildlife, it would have been more astonishing to say giraffes don't pass that first hurdle," she said.
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"What we want to do is raise that bar, make it so that giraffes aren't threatened by trade in addition to the other threats they are facing," he said.
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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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Giraffes are easy to like—in part for seeming so unassuming about their height advantage—and the international zoo industry couldn't dismiss the Copenhagen Zoo as a renegade operation.
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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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Giraffes Maggie, Mollie and Ellie found leaves in cut-out pumpkins for their breakfast, while the zoo's Bolivian black-capped squirrel monkeys played with small pumpkins dangling from a rope.
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The Kordogan and Nubian giraffes were listed as critically endangered late last year, in part due to an increase in trophy hunting, and the dissolution of import regulation under Trump.
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Computers, on the other hand, typically need to sort through a whole database of giraffes, shown in many settings and from different perspectives, to learn to accurately recognize the animal.
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The mother has had her hands full with five baby giraffes --which are usually born six feet tall and weighing 100 to 150 pounds -- over the course of her lifetime.
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"It's like a billion-to-one chance this happened to us and our poor giraffes, but we are looking at anything we can to improve upon," Passeser told NBC News.
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Steam billows from 50-year-old copper cauldrons, and bottles rattle off the conveyor belt before they are stamped with a label bearing two giraffes and the words: "Bière Niger".
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There are only 1,600 Rothchild's giraffes left in the wild, so each new calf born, whether in captivity or the wild, is vital in the conservation of this elegant animal.
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And while April has been munching hay and flirting with her baby daddy on live TV, zoos around the world have welcomed the arrival of baby giraffes with little fanfare.
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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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Why it matters: Over the past few years, there have been several celebrity hunters who have come under fire for posting photos of their trophy hunts — lions, zebras, giraffes, etc.
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The zoo says that elephants, giraffes, zebras, camels, and goats enjoyed the tree branches as an appetizer, while baboons and otters had fun hunting through pine needles for hidden treats.
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Holston was a zookeeper from Miami who produced viral videos of him cavorting with chimps, lions, giraffes, snakes, otters, kangaroos, sharks, reptiles and other animals was arrested in Miami Friday.
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About 60 percent were nocturnal, like the vampire bat, the fennec fox and the four-toed hedgehog, and 26 percent were diurnal like the eastern gray squirrel, giraffes and humans.
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Granted, a certain amount of hubris is required to believe we'll soon master the wondrous mechanism that turned lone cells into whales and giraffes in a mere few billion years.
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GENEVA — Giraffes may well tower over all other animals in the natural world — but in the wild, their numbers are rapidly dwindling, and they are desperately in need of protection.
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According to the Copenhagen Zoo, in the five years before Marius was born half a dozen young male giraffes had been killed, quietly but not illicitly, in other Danish zoos.
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While seeing lions, giraffes, and elephants up close was cool, it was nothing compared to witnessing the Great Wildebeest Migration — 1.5 million wildebeest traveling across Tanzania's grasslands to give birth.
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Between 1970 and 2005, national parks in Africa saw an average decline of 59 percent in the populations of dozens of large mammals, among them lions, zebras, elephants and giraffes.
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She reimagined it as an experience that included Africa and Polynesia, with establishment silks and stripes and Gauguin references; red leather giraffes roaming across a field of python-print jersey.
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Two other giraffes gifted around the same time died within a couple of years, but Zarafa was carefully transported to Paris by what seemed the least dangerous way: on foot.
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In the 1980s the drug lord brought perhaps a half-dozen hippos to join the rhinos, giraffes, zebras and camels at his zoo at Hacienda Nápoles, his mansion east of Medellín.
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The calf is already attempting to stand up and newborn giraffes are often able to begin running on their first day after taking the six-foot plunge from their mother's womb.
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Covering 33,000 sq km (19,000 sq miles), the Selous reserve is one of the largest protected areas in Africa, and is famed for its elephants, lions, black rhinos, hippos and giraffes.
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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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"And say hi to your colleagues from the giraffe!" the person who had literally just accused me of trying to imbue giraffes with human-like qualities taunted as her sign-off.
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This Georgia park allows visitors to drive through the property in their own vehicles or on a guided tour bus ride, interacting with animals — from giraffes to horses — along the way.
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The couple arrived on Friday and are staying at a luxurious safari lodge in a national park that boasts spectacular waterfalls and wild game including buffaloes, antelopes, lions, giraffes and warthogs.
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After much effort, when it became clear that giraffes have no concept of what a race is, Mr. Darnell was forced to enlist a zebra, which easily won the interspecies competition.
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"We subdivided the surface of giraffes into four components - the head, neck, trunk and upper legs, and lower legs," the authors write, based on data from 30 male and 30 female specimens.
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The birth comes at a dire time for giraffes, whose numbers have plummeted over the past three decades -- from more than 150,000 to fewer than 100,000, according to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation.
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In tourist brochures, it is a pleasant, laid-back colonial city where you can see giraffes and lions in the national park before relaxing with a gin and tonic on a verandah.
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ANTWERP, Belgium (Reuters) - Amid all the hand-wringing from businessmen and politicians about potential risks from a 'no-deal' Brexit, zookeepers are worried too - especially for a group of rare forest giraffes.
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And let it hold an animatronic Noah and lifelike models of some of the creatures that came on board two-by-two, such as bears, short-necked giraffes — and juvenile Tyrannosaurus rexes.
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Prince William Prince William proposed to Kate Middleton at a secluded cabin getaway in the sprawling Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya, where rhinos and giraffes peek at vacationers from behind the bushes.
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Down to around 97,000 surviving animals, Africa's giraffes are gravely imperiled by habitat loss and fragmentation, civil unrest and overhunting, as well as the international trade in bone carvings, skins and trophies.
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It was roughly the size of a female chimp and dwelled in a relatively dry mixed woodland-grassland environment, similar to today's African savanna, alongside antelopes, giraffes, rhinos, elephants, hyenas and warthogs.
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The black rhino and cheetah can be elusive, but there are spindly giraffes and young zebra dotting the landscape, and herds of elephants trundle along to the watering hole at cocktail hour.
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They then board a vehicle to take a tour of the property's more than 400-acre wildlife preserve, where they can spot giraffes, zebras, wildebeests and hundreds of varieties of other animals.
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At Nairobi's Giraffe Center, you can feed Rothschild's giraffes food pellets from your palm, and stick a pellet between your lips and get the wettest, stickiest kiss you've received since seventh grade.
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The International Union for Conservation and Nature (IUCN) elevated the conservation status of Masai giraffes to Endangered in December 2018, so this happy World Giraffe Day news couldn't come at a better time.
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The basketball pro couldn't help but spend a little more time marveling at the impressive bookshelves in Kaavia's room, which bore stories like Giraffes Can&apost Dance, Hair Like Mine and Chocolate Me!
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After posting a video to her Instagram Story of a monkey walking along a railing on Wednesday, Kardashian West shared a few more clips and a photo of a large group of giraffes.
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"They picked that name because they hope that we can continue forward this message of conservation for sustainability and preservation of giraffes in the wild and also our efforts in captivity," Patch said.
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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 genetic differences between giraffes is so large that we have to in fact describe four new species," said Axel Janke, a geneticist from the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center in Frankfurt.
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While a handful of Americans want to use dead giraffes as morbid props for photo ops, most of us want these gentle giants protected as a glorious part of our planet's natural heritage.
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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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Height is also the result of hundreds or more genes making different parts of the body a little longer, which is why tall humans aren't just tall because they have necks like giraffes.
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"It fills a lot of gaps in what we knew about giraffes," said Dr. María Ríos, the study's lead author and a researcher with the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC in Madrid.
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An official with the Danbury Township Police told CNN that three giraffes, three red river hogs, three bongos and a springbok had all been in the barn at the time of the fire.
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, in the early nineteenth century, had supposed that when an antelope strained its neck to reach a tree its efforts were somehow passed down and its progeny evolved into giraffes.
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While we stopped to admire the giraffes, hippos, buffalo, antelope, elephants and baboons, she pointed out all of the exotic birds that would go unnoticed otherwise: cape turtle doves, hornbills, little bee eaters.
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Three giraffes, three red river hogs, three bongos (large forest antelope) and a springbok (a gazelle-like antelope) were inside a barn that was destroyed by the blaze, said the Danbury Township Police.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Countries voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to regulate international trade in giraffes, an endangered species, and in their skins and other parts, overcoming objections by southern African states and drawing praise from conservationists.
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Rhinos, elephants, giraffes, and yes, lions: In the future, these animals will only exist in the vague haze of intergenerational memory, their shapes to be dimly made out in cloud formations—ghostly and cartoonish.
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There's no recorded evidence of how long giraffes live, according to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, but it's estimated that they can live to about 25 years in the wild and even longer in captivity.
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If the results hold, then elephants would sleep the least of any mammal, less than horses ,which sleep around three hours per day, or giraffes, sleep three to four, according to the study's reporting.
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The stream's original sponsor, Mazuri Exotic Animal Nutrition, locked down the rights for peanuts—or you know, whatever giraffes eat—back when everyone thought the baby would just be a one-and-done deal.
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"As a significant importer of giraffes and their parts, and as a global leader in conservation, the U.S. can make a large and positive impact on the international trade of the species," they wrote.
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This, according to the paper, lends evidence to the theory that giraffes evolved these characteristic as an adaptive evolutionary response, to access more food, since so many of the attributes were developing in tandem.
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Although the Kenya Wildlife Service said the rare animals were the only three white giraffes left in the world, another known white giraffe was spotted in Tarangire National Park, in Tanzania, in January 2016.
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As we floated along, maybe 5003 yards from shore, a distance close enough to observe but hopefully not disturb, we watched baboons, zebras, giraffes and gazelles head down to the lake for a drink.
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The zoo was littered with the corpses of giraffes and big cats, but the bear had survived due to the efforts of a former bank-teller who dashed through the night to feed him.
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As documented in "The Woman Who Loves Giraffes," that trip — aside from a Scottish study of red deer — would make her the first scientist ever to study the behavior of animals in the wild.
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The first season finale of this globe-trotting nature show takes us to Africa for a close look at its wildlife, with scenes highlighting hippos in need of water and ferocious battles between giraffes.
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"Katy and Finn were about a (sic) 150 yards from their home in South Africa, when they came to a opening in the trees, they saw a group of giraffes," Jack wrote on the page.
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Hoanib Valley Camp The camp sits on the banks of the Obias River, just outside the private Palmwag Concession — a conservancy area — and overlooks the Hoanib River that teems with elephants, giraffes, oryx and springbok.
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That is the startling conclusion of a first-of-its-kind genetic analysis of giraffes, which finds that populations from different regions of the African continent are as distinct as polar bears and brown bears.
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Falling numbers While giraffes have not made headlines for their risk of extinction, their numbers have plummeted over the past three decades, from more than 150,000 to fewer than 100,000, according to the conservation group.
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In the months since April has been munching hay and flirting with her baby daddy on live TV, zoos around the world have welcomed the arrival of at least 5 baby giraffes with little fanfare.
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The samples were collected with darts that are shot at the giraffes from a distance; after the dart hits the animal, it captures a small piece of giraffe tissue and then drops to the ground.
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Humans are not only creating antibiotic-resistant strains of E. coli, but we're spreading them to giraffes and other members of the animal kingdom, according to a new study published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
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As the first lady sat alone in her vehicle, peering through binoculars and shooting photos of zebras, giraffes and impalas on her iPhone, critics were parsing her decision to wear the attention-grabbing white hat.
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If you are a zoologist who wants an algorithm that identifies jaguars and giraffes, said Fei-Fei Li, chief scientist inside the Google cloud group, all you have to do is supply the right images.
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Still, the peacefulness has been preserved at a property where Mr. Fourtou, a French artist known for his sculptures of animals — predominantly lambs, giraffes, snails and orangutans — has spent two decades channeling his creative impulses.
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Giraffes, he proposed, arose through heritable variation and natural selection—a tall-necked specimen appears in an ancestral tree-grazing animal, and, perhaps during a period of famine, this mutant survives and is naturally selected.
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Ferdinand and Imelda were the kind of fun couple who evicted destitute people from Calauit, their island home, so that it could be repurposed as a nature preserve with zebras and giraffes airlifted from Kenya.
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Known for its elephants, black rhinos and giraffes, the Selous Game Reserve on which the dam will be built, covers 50,000 square km and is one of the largest protected areas in Africa, according to UNESCO.
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At the Samburu sanctuary, wild African animals that happen to pass through — giraffes, bison, and elephants — all realize they're safe, even though there's no fence or boundaries distinguishing the true wilderness from the sanctuary, said Lemoonga.
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"Whilst giraffes are commonly seen on safari, in the media and in zoos, people -- including conservationists -- are unaware that these majestic animals are undergoing a silent extinction," IUCN co-Chairman Julian Fennessy, was quoted as saying.
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We begin by reporting on an arctic air mass that's moving across the U.S. And we feature reports on how the numbers of giraffes and frogs in some parts of the world are on the decline.
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Because "giraffes are commonly seen on safari, in the media, and in zoos, people—including conservationists—are unaware that these majestic animals are undergoing a silent extinction," IUCN co-chairman Julian Fennessy said in the report.
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Such figures, along with more than 30 varieties including elephants, giraffes, deer and dolphins, crop up on road barriers all over Japan, an effort to entertain passers-by who might otherwise regard construction sites as nuisances.
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Miles and miles of pipes — some high enough off the ground that trucks can pass underneath and giraffes won't hit their heads — carry steam from beneath this volcanic valley to big power plants inside the park.
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In the alley beneath Holst's office, Bertelsen led the dissection, assisted by Cathrine Sauer Jørgensen, a Ph.D. student in animal nutrition, who was able to add to her collection of digestive tracts from three dozen giraffes.
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Yet the animals' rare size and regal visage have made them a prime target of poachers in Africa, who drop steel-wire snares from tree canopies or stalk and shoot giraffes with rifles, wildlife experts say.
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In the giraffe enclosure olive boughs were shaped to form the figure "100" and served as breakfast, consumed with relish by the giraffes before a backdrop of the habour with the city and its famous bridge.
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Now, researchers say they have developed a technique that produces far more convincing images for complex tasks, such as swapping out skirts for pants, cups for bottles, or a herd of sheep for a mess of giraffes.
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Maybe the ancestors of giraffes ate leaves from trees, and the ones who could reach the most leaves were the fittest, and therefore passed that trait down to the silly looking long-necked animals we see today.
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A court said that it cannot stop construction of a 6 km (4 mile) railway bridge, which the China Road and Bridge Corporation started building last month through the capital's sprawling sanctuary for lions, giraffes and zebras.
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Every thing she saw was a first for her, and when we touched down on the airstrip on the Mara, there were giraffes roaming around, just seemingly waiting for us right there and she just lost it.
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The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) currently recognizes giraffes (one species) as "least concern," a designation that some biologists say diminishes the risks these animals face due to habitat loss, illegal hunting and poaching.
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This teensy pterosaur, in fact, is from the late Cretaceous, around 83 to 72 million years ago, a time when the largest pterosaurs were as big as giraffes and small pterosaurs were thought to be mostly extinct.
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Conservation groups have been pushing the administration to add giraffes to the U.S. endangered species list, and the FWS is currently considering whether to add them following a petition and lawsuit from the NRDC and other groups.
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READ MORE: No One Knows Anything About Giraffes It finally happened on April 15 during Easter weekend when, after months of waiting, park owner Jordan Patch posted a Facebook video of him enthusiastically racing over to April.
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"Not only has [Onder] compared women to giraffes and zoo animals, but he has invoked the Holocaust and genocide in reference to a woman's right to an abortion," Progress Missouri said in a statement to the Huffington Post.
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Human settlements have long been encroaching on the Nairobi National Park which was established in 1946 and gives visitors a chance to see lions, giraffes, zebras and other wildlife against a backdrop of the city's high-rise buildings.
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Four years ago, a very sick 8-year-old girl named Amelia Attaway's last wish was to spend a day behind-the-scenes at the Riverbanks Zoo and Gardens in Columbia, South Carolina, meeting and feeding the giraffes.
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"We certainly have a lot to celebrate with the arrival of this calf, and we also look forward to welcoming [Cami's] calf soon as these births mark an important achievement in helping to protect the future of giraffes."
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Breakfast Time, Cari Hill, New ZealandShortly after purchasing the Giraffe Manor in Nairobi, Kenya, the owners learned that the only remaining Rothschild's giraffes in the country were at risk, as their sole habitat was being subdivided into smallholdings.
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For right now, baby and mom are getting some behind-the-scenes time to bond together, though that hasn't stopped the other nine giraffes in the herd from using their long necks to peek into the maternity stall.
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"I'm writing because I'm putting together a story and need to speak with someone who has expertise in how giraffes behave in captivity and who can answer basic questions about their reproductive process," my very simple query read.
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Human settlements and activity have long been encroaching on the Nairobi National Park, which was established in 1946 and gives visitors the chance to see lions, giraffes, zebras and other wildlife against a backdrop of high-rise buildings.
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Daskin and Pringle focused on 36 species of herbivore mammals across Africa—like elephants, antelopes, buffalo, and giraffes—since population data for large and conspicuous animals, compared to, say, small birds, tends to be more available and robust.
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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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Escobar spent years converting the property from an isolated wilderness to a refuge, with paved roads, artificial lakes, and a private zoo stocked with zebras, hippopotamuses, and giraffes, as well as a series of life-size dinosaur sculptures.
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Originally from suburban Michigan, he has been in New York since 2004, pursuing commercial work for brands like Uniqlo (a pocket tee printed with contented-seeming giraffes, a tote bag adorned with a pretzel pattern), alongside grander projects.
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Stories that seem to resonate with him (those he asks me to read over and over) are "Giraffes Can't Dance" written by Giles Andreae and illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees, and "We're All Wonders" by R. J. Palacio.
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On a fern-lined catwalk dotted with wooden lions and giraffes, designer Maria Grazia Chiuri presented the brand's Autumn-Winter 2017/18 haute couture collection, revisiting the iconic "Bar" Jacket and gray skirt suits with a 1950s feel.
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Visitors can also view herds of buffalo and tiang — a type of antelope — in numbers rarely seen elsewhere, and the park hosts an estimated 950 Kordofan giraffes — almost half of the world's remaining population of that imperiled subspecies.
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According to a source, Kris Jenner recently accompanied her daughter on a shopping trip at both Petit Tresor and Couture Kids, to stock up on pink items like a rocking chair and a variety of stuffed animals, including giraffes.
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The researchers sequenced the whole genomes of two female Masai giraffes from the Masai Mara reserve in Kenya and the Nashville Zoo in the United States, and one male okapi from the White Oak Holdings in the United States.
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But April still hasn't given birth to her baby, and soon after the giraffe cam made headlines, Animal Adventure Park started to receive complaints from its commenters that some people were pushing the false theory that giraffes lay eggs.
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The bioelectricity plant was to be built in Saadani National Park in northern Tanzania and would have siphoned huge amounts of water from a major river, affecting the elephants, hippos and giraffes that roam the 1,100 square km sanctuary.
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Human settlements and activity have long been encroaching on the Nairobi National Park, which was established in 1946 on the city limits and provides views of lions, giraffes, zebras and other wildlife against a backdrop of high-rise buildings.
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A couple of months ago, a specialist group that works for the conservation of giraffes and their closest relatives, the okapi, asked for the giraffe to gain a "threatened" status on the list, in view of its dwindling population.
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The auction in April 22020 will also include dozens of pieces of her furniture, art work and tableware, and numerous ceramic dogs, birds, decorative pigs and pictures of giraffes and other critters that adorned her rustic home, Julien's said.
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But there's also the way that all of Zootopia must find ways to accommodate giraffes' long necks, and the tiny little doors on trains that let mice in and out, and the Habitrails running through a little hamster city.
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Located on the Nile between the Ugandan lakes Kyoga and Albert, the Murchison Falls also lend their name to a 3,900 square km national park, one of Uganda's biggest, where visitors can view lions, hippos, elephants, buffalos and giraffes.
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Nairobi National Park, a bushy expanse of long grass and watering holes just minutes from the glass towers of downtown, is a popular tourist destination where visitors can see lions, leopards, giraffes, hyenas, buffaloes, zebra and even highly endangered rhinos.
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It appears as though the new Decennatherium species is the earliest known offshoot of a lineage containing the gigantic, "antlered" sivatheres, and another similar group, the samotheres—a different fork of the family tree from where giraffes and okapi reside.
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To the left, the Tsavo East National Park presents the sort of flat, yellow plains that giraffes are silhouetted against on postcards of Africa, while on the right the Tsavo West National Park yawns open, Mount Kilimanjaro visible in the distance.
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While platypuses slumber away over half their life, giraffes are some of the most committed insomniacs in nature, taking short power naps that only add up to about 30 minutes of shuteye over 24 hours, according to the Sleep Foundation.
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Click here to view original GIFHere's a fun art piece made by artist Matthieu Robert-Ortis: in one perspective, it looks like two giraffes standing opposite each other while in another, it looks like a single elephant staring straight at you.
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Tyra Banks, Outstanding Host of a Reality or Reality Competition Program on America's Next Top Model Banks practically birthed the Instagram model generation, teaching us all how to smize, take underwater photos, and stretch our necks like giraffes for these selfies.
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It enables the institute to document births, deaths and movements of more than 2,100 individual giraffes across roughly 1,500 square miles of land, which is stretched out among a patchwork of national parks, a cattle ranch, Masai livestock ranges and farms.
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" In a statement to CBS News, Kitty Block, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International, said trophy hunting of giraffes showed "sheer and arrogant disregard for the imperiled status of an iconic species.
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In Kenya, on her safari in Nairobi National Park this week, the first lady, in an open-topped Land Cruiser, binoculars in hand, viewed herds of zebras, impalas, and a few giraffes and hippopotamuses, occasionally snapping pictures on her personal cellphone.
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Botswana is known for its eco-diversity, and much of its tourism is driven by places like the Kalahari Desert, which is actually dominated by grasslands and fossilized river valleys, and is home to wildlife like cheetahs, giraffes and hyenas.
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"Wild: Life, Death and Love in a Wildlife Hospital" and "Waiting for Giraffes," documentaries paired for a double bill opening Wednesday at Film Forum, are both relatively short and feature animals and Middle Eastern settings, but they take different approaches.
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The survival of the zoo's six zebras, two rhinos, six giraffes, four gorillas, three tigers and six lions, among others, is among the few positive stories to come out of a devastating fire season that has so far killed 26 people.
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SIENA, Italy — The colorful tickets bearing images of an elephant and giraffes behind the Colosseum along with the two iconic tigers of an Italian circus promised an afternoon's respite from hardship, a gift from the Vatican to thousands of poor people.
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Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Salvador Dali, the Marx Brothers, and the Strangest Movie Never Made by Josh Frank, Tim Heidecker, and Manuela Pertega is published by Quirk Books; First Edition (March 19, 2019) and is available from Amazon and other online retailers.
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And while this clip offers a bit of Bourdain's last monologue, it also captures one particularly powerful unscripted exchange the two had while looking out at a few wild giraffes—a painful reminder of how much the host loved what he did.
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Kevin Boyle tweeted a picture of two giraffes up to their necks in snow along with "Breaking News: NWS forced to use D.C. National Zoo's giraffe's to record total depth of #blizzard2016" True to Washington form, a thorough investigation has been promised.
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Last year, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature confirmed that giraffes were vulnerable to extinction — and also assessed two giraffe subspecies as being critically endangered, including one population that has suffered a 22019 percent population decline in the past 35 years.
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The context: Scientists have warned for years that iconic species like giraffes, mountain gorillas, African elephants and rhinos are under assault from a combination of land use, poaching and climate impacts, and face extinction in the wild in the next 20 years.
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The giraffe is listed as vulnerable on the international Red List of Threatened Species because of a population decline of 36 percent to 40 percent over three generations, or from between 150,000 and 164,000 giraffes in 1985 to fewer than 98,000 in 2015.
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There are no details yet on which animals would be put on sale or how much they would cost, but the southern African country is home to 10 national parks that are famed for their huge populations of elephants, giraffes, lions, rhinos, leopards, and buffalos.
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If you were…Read more ReadOver the past thirty years, the number of giraffes on Earth has dropped 38 percent, from roughly 157,000 individuals in 1985 to 97,500 today, according a new population survey conducted by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
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By estimating the amount of carbon stored in organisms, otherwise known as biomass, the scientists were able to compare the relative abundance of different kinds of Earth's life, weighing both the microbes beneath the soil and the giraffes walking above it on the same scale.
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The internet's latest conspiracy theory involving the upstate New York zoo's giraffe and its much-watched livestream of her very, very long pregnancy (she was due in mid-February and giraffes gestate for about 15 months) is that it's all an elaborate April Fools' joke.
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Come evening, she likes to go out for boogie nights, and if, for anthropological reasons, you enjoy watching a herd of humans—mostly middle-aged and white—shimmy to venerable disco tunes, with all the suppleness of rheumatic giraffes, this movie is for you.
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The park, a popular tourist destination where visitors can see lions, leopards, giraffes and even rhinos, is also close to a large and densely populated slum, raising fears that a breach in the fence that is not repaired could put more people in danger.
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"It's a way of telling our own story and showcasing the archival collection we've been working to expand," says Higgs, who, of all the creatures on view, from snakes to giraffes, is particularly drawn to a pair of owls on a beaded torsade bracelet.
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The Safari Club International, a pro-hunting group, said that the potential measures could "would reduce U.S. hunters' willingness to pay top dollar for giraffe hunts," money that could in turn be used to buy land to increase giraffes' habitat or fund anti-poaching programs.
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Seth Herzog's comedy showcase, normally held on a Tuesday, moves to Monday for this special edition, which is preceded by a live reading of "Giraffes on Horseback Salad," from a graphic novel by Josh Frank, adapted with Tim Heidecker and illustrated by Manuel Pertega.
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"GCF has never been nor will we ever be a mouthpiece for any supporter who provides assistance in helping us achieve our mandate to save giraffes in the wild in Africa through a science-based conservation approach," Fennessy wrote in an email to BuzzFeed News.
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By family, he means giraffes, rhinos, lions and gorillas among the 200 residents of Mogo Zoo, which he and 15 staff battled to defend last week from raging bushfires that ravaged dozens of homes and vehicles across the tiny tourist town on New Year's Eve.
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Asked if it was possible for giraffes to become extinct in the wild in the next 20 years if nothing is done, Derek Lee, an ecologist who contributed to the Red List report, paused for several moments during a phone interview on Thursday from Tanzania.
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Those include: Slashing carbon emissions to slow climate change; policing the poachers who are hacking the horns off of rhinos, stealing tails from giraffes and killing pangolins for their scales; banning single-use plastics; and, more to the heart of it, protecting half the Earth's surface.
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There are posture-tracking giraffes and cuddly lions that check blood oxygen saturation levels; temperature-checking dummies, and even a smart sock that connects to a base station which glows a threatening red when your baby's heart rate is deemed abnormal (or the sock falls off).
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Climate change, caused by the burning of fossil fuels, is sending toxic chemicals into the environment; forests and other habitats are being repurposed for agriculture; and poachers are continuing to endanger the survival of animals such as elephants, pangolins, rhinos, and giraffes – driven by consumer demand.
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Elsewhere around the country, people are contemplating less illegal ways they would spend the mind-blowing prize, and the possibilities are endless: If I won the 800 million dollar power ball Saturday I would own at least 3 giraffes and a scale sized Millennium Falcon by Sunday.
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The measure approved at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) requires the countries to issue export permits ensuring any giraffe hide or bones are legally acquired and that the trade is not detrimental to the survival of wild giraffes.
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We're still not finished with puzzling over why giraffes necks are so long, and some of the paper's authors have already started experiments injecting one of the gene mutations into mice using CRISPR/Cas9, according to a press release, to determine exactly what role it plays.
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Diana Thater's nine-monitor video wall in a grid of different hues (including blue, green, yellow, and pink) shows an elephant and giraffes—which are severely threatened by poaching— visiting a watering hole in Kenya against a wooded landscape and speeded-up clouds ("Time Compressed," 2017).
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Conservationists who hurried to the site managed to capture what is believed to be the first known video footage of white giraffes, said Abdullahi H. Ali, who founded Hirola and has been working to conserve the critically endangered hirola antelope in the eastern part of the country.
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"While global attention has been on threats to elephants and rhinos, giraffes have been off the radar, and we've been losing them in significant numbers," said Liz Bennett, the vice president for species conservation for the Wildlife Conservation Society, which was not involved in the report.
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Giraffes were once listed as a species of "least concern" by the Belgium- and U.K- based International Union for the Conservation of Nature, but poaching, habitat loss, civil unrest and other factors have led to rapid declines in five out of the nine giraffe subspecies in various African regions.
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It's the kind of cold that makes your hands start to go numb after just a few minutes without gloves, yet it's totally normal to see young women linking arms and wearing miniskirts and high heels with bare legs walking like baby giraffes on the snowy cobblestone streets.
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Compared with giraffes, which zonk out for just 30 minutes a day, or dolphins, which rest only one-half of their brains at a time, I—who will gleefully luxuriate in nine hours of shut-eye now and then—am basically a lump who occasionally has wakeful moments.
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Shortly afterward came the Giraffe Center of the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife, which has been raising rare Rothschild's giraffes for release, with some serving in a popular education program visited by tens of thousands of Kenyan students each year, along with thousands of tourists and Kenyan families.
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Trophy hunters—those who hunt large, often endangered or threatened wild animals in order to keep and display their carcasses—are applauding the idea of a weakened Endangered Species Act, which may make it easier to import dead leopards, giraffes, and other exotic animals to the United States.
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Giraffes, which can grow to 20 feet and are the world's tallest land mammals, have been declared "vulnerable" to extinction because of poaching and a loss of habitat, according to the Red List of Threatened Species published in 2016 by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
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They requested a scientific analysis of the situation from the IUCN, knowing a favorable expert opinion would greatly improve the chances of success of a joint motion to help protect giraffes from trophy hunters that they planned to submit to the organizers of the UN's World Wildlife Conference.
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The underlying proposition, widely advanced by zoo professionals, is that, in an era when it's no longer acceptable to round up wild giraffes, maintaining a sustainable stock in a zoo is not simply a business necessity; it's an achievement of conservation—or, at least, a sign of scientific ardor.
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There are animals, too, gamboling in the park — the indolent elephant with a parasol, the raffish bunny in a boater, a family of giraffes — all of it a gloss on the uptown social scene, whimsical, charming, with a tiny spritz of irony, like the Vermouth in your gin.
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In particular, they cite cheetahs, which have declined to around 1003,000 members; Borneo and Sumatran orangutans, of which fewer than 5,000 remain; populations of African lions, which have declined by 43 percent since 1993; pangolins, which have been "decimated"; and giraffes, whose four species now number under 100,000 members.
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But here I am talking like this is not a film that features a long scene of flora and fauna—giraffes, crocodiles, orange trees, you name it—emerging from people's orifices like something out of a Boschean Hanna Barbara, and, reader, that is precisely what I'm talking about.
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Whenever member countries want to propose stricter protections of certain animal species by getting them "uplisted" in the CITES agreement, they typically approach the IUCN for scientific analysis, and the conservation NGO known as Traffic, just like the six African countries did when they wanted to increase protection for giraffes.
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" Patch added, "They picked that name because they hope that we can continue forward this message of conservation for sustainability and preservation of giraffes in the wild and also our efforts in captivity," And don't worry, if you have trouble remembering or pronouncing Tajiri's name, Patch explained that the calf will be nicknamed "Taj.
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Pop-culture scholar Josh Frank, known for his books on Peter Ivers and the Pixies, has tried to give shape to the most surreal flight of fancy there ever was: a would-be/could-be collaboration in 1937 between Salvador Dalí and the Marx brothers, titled Giraffes on Horseback Salad, or The Surrealist Woman.
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"When I see you staying in a hotel that costs thousands of yuan a night, eating fancy food, and that you can afford to fly to Kenya when you want to see giraffes, even though I won't say I'm happy for your demise, I definitely do not have sympathy for you," one commenter wrote.
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The TAZARA is a local passenger train that goes from Zambia to Tanzania — and is supposed to be one of the world&aposs most scenic train rides, according to The Guardian, offering a chance to see some of Africa&aposs famous wildlife, like elephants, zebras, lions, giraffes, and more as it travels for days.
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Safari Club International's recent attack on The Humane Society of the United States ("HSUS petition is a threat to giraffe populations, not hunting," April 220006) for our efforts to increase protection for giraffes represents only the latest in a string of attempts to preserve the rights of wealthy trophy hunters to kill the world's rarest animals.
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Last week, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) joined forces with fellow travelers in the animal rights movement — the Center for Biological Diversity, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, and the Natural Resources Defense Council — to file a petition with the Department of the Interior seeking "endangered" status for all giraffes under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
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As a child, I was riveted when my parents took the family to the zoo Mr. Escobar built at Hacienda Nápoles, his large estate outside Medellín, where hippopotamuses, giraffes, tigers and elephants helped soften the image of a man who killed scores of people and poisoned the country's politics in ways that endure to this day.
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If visiting Disney's Animal Kingdom isn't enough to quell your interest in the many exotic species living right in the heart of Orlando, try the Wanyama Safari at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge, a private 90-minute tour where you'll come face to face with more than 30 different types of animals, from giraffes and zebras to antelopes and ostriches.
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Underpass with Elephants (Lean Back, Your Life is on Track), 2015 Wasteland with Rhinos & Residents, 2015 Quarry with Lion, 2014 Alleyway with Chimpanzee, 2014 Quarry with Giraffe, 2014 Road to Factory with Zebra, 2014 Wasteland with Elephant, 2015 Factory with Rhino, 2014 Nick Brandt uses his moody portraits of elephants, giraffes, and lions to call attention to Africa's vanishing megafauna.
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Picking up where its predecessor left off a full decade ago, BBC America's Planet Earth II — a six-episode docuseries set to debut sometime before the end of the year — reunites some of the series' classic characters, from burrowing insects to galloping giraffes to a variety of big cats lurking and prowling in the shadows, waiting for an opportunity to strike.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's latest gift to the residents of Pyongyang, the renovated central zoo, is pulling in thousands of visitors a day with a slew of attractions ranging from such typical zoo fare as elephants, giraffes, penguins and monkeys to a high-tech natural history museum with displays showing the origins of the solar system and the evolution of life on Earth.
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But despite President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's own strongly stated opposition to trophy hunting of African animals (he's called it a "horror show"), his officials have dragged their feet on the urgent matter of safeguarding giraffes.
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I found it so relaxing and rejuvenating — the perfect antidote to staring at a computer all day or constantly checking my iPhone — to just gaze across those mirror-flat lakes and smell the wild jasmine in the air and watch giraffes saunter past so delicately it looked like their long femurs were filled with helium — that's how lightly and soundlessly these giants float across the earth.
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Fashion Review PARIS — Last week, at the opening of the haute couture season, in the gardens of Les Invalides, the gold-domed monument to France's military history where Napoleon is buried, Christian Dior created the world yet to be explored: Wooden crocodiles roamed over arid earth; giraffes through stands of bamboo; and eagles soared overhead beneath the canopy of a suspended map by the artist Pietro Ruffo.
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As we're gearing up for the release of the "New Romantics" video, we're taking a look back at the rest of Swift's 1989 videos – and where to go if you want to relive them in person "WILDEST DREAMS" Where: Botswana and South Africa, AfricaTelling the story of two movie stars filming in Africa in the 1950s, the "Wildest Dreams" video looks like something out of a postcard, filled with waterfalls, giraffes, elephants, lions, mountains and vintage planes.
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I've had the privilege of walking with giraffes in Africa while they ate their breakfast; landing in a helicopter on a glacier in Alaska and drinking glacial stream water fresh from the source; marveling at Iceland's green and pink northern lights as they danced over the arctic; off-roading in the endless camel littered sand dunes of a desert in the Middle East; floating in the clear waters of the Caribbean; and exploring ancient European cities.
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