Photo: Ron Mader, Unexpected giraffe (Some rights reserved)
Links related to giraffes
Recommended Listening
Giraffes – the forgotten megafauna – Conservationists are putting renewed energy into saving the giraffe, whose population has plummeted by 40 percent in just 16 years… there are just 80 thousand left. This rapid loss has prompted the creation of the Giraffe Conservation Foundation – headed by long time giraffe conservationist Dr Julian Fennessy who says giraffes are the forgotten megafauna, and are far more fascinating and complex than most people realise.
Headlines
The way we study giraffes is exhilarating and stressful
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/the-fall-of-the-giraffe/510062/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/38240760
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/giraffes-face-silent-extinction-warns-sir-david-attenborough-1566320
Congo’s giraffes being hunted into extinction — for their meat
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/science/our-understanding-of-giraffes-does-not-measure-up.html
Giraffemania! The live diplomatic gift that started a Georgian craze
Anne Dagg
Anne Dagg, pioneering giraffe biologist and feminist critic of “evolutionary psychology” receives the Order of Canada
https://youtu.be/T6_UVfr-HfI
Elsewhere on the Web
awf.org
ARKive – images and movies of the giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis).
Animal Diversity Web – Giraffa camelopardalis
Giraffe, African Wildlife Foundation
Giraffa camelopardalis, Encyclopedia of Life
giraffeconservation.org – @Save_Giraffe
giraffecenter.org – @GiraffeCenter
Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/planeta/sets/72157623611798057
Twitter
https://twitter.com/GiraffeCenter
Humming
https://soundcloud.com/new-scientist/giraffes-humming
Translating: Giraffe
Spanish: Jirafa
Japanese: Kirin (麒麟)
Quotes
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. – Pablo Picasso
Dios es sólo otro artista. Él inventó la jirafa, el elefante y el gato. Él no tiene estilo real, él sólo prueba otras cosas. – Pablo Picasso
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Wikipedia
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Planeta.com