JOHANNESBURG - Being tall is the giraffe’s competitive advantage, giving it the pick of leaves from the tallest trees, so scientists were stunned to find two giraffe dwarves on different sides of Africa. “It’s fascinating what our researchers out in the field found,” Julian Fennessy, co-founder of the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, told Reuters in a videocall on Friday. “We were.
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Being tall is the giraffe’s competitive advantage, giving it the pick of leaves from the tallest trees, so scientists were stunned to find two giraffe dwarves on different sides of Africa.
“It’s fascinating what our researchers out in the field found. We were very surprised,” Julian Fennessy, cofounder of the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, said in a videocall on Friday.
Most giraffes grow to 4.5m to 6m, but in 2018, scientists working with the foundation discovered a 2.6m giraffe in Namibia. Three years earlier, they had also found a 2.8m giraffe in a Ugandan wildlife park.
They published their findings in the British Medical
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Two adorable giraffes are breaking scientific barriers as the first ever reported dwarves of their kind. The two males were first seen by researchers in Namibia and Uganda with short legs. See a photo of the adorable creatures on RADIO.COM.