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Three giraffe subspecies

Where you can see three giraffe subspecies in one enclosure?

Three giraffe subspecies
cockroach, 31 Aug 2010
    • cockroach
      Where you can see three giraffe subspecies in one enclosure?
    • Benzoo
      Nice to see. Luckily it's three bulls. There are enough hybrids in zoos. Especially now when G. c. rothschildi is upgraded to "Endangered" by IUCN.
    • Chlidonias
      what are these three giraffe sbspecies?
    • scimiterhorned1
      1 is reticulated and the other is rothschild. i dnt know what the other is. is it an angolan ?
    • KCZooFan
      If your talking about the one on the far right, I beleive it is Masai.
    • scimiterhorned1
      it dosent look like a masai. it looks like another rothschild 2 me. look at the white socks and coat colouring
    • jbnbsn99
      Looks like (from r to l) a Rothschild, an Angolan, and a Reticulated x Rothschild
    • Benzoo
      It´s definitely a Rothschilds to the left and a Reticulated to the right and the one in the middle should be another northern subspecies, a Western (G. c. perlata) or Kordofan (G. c. antiquorum).
    • Tarsius
      DResden is keeping three male giraffes, all pure bred : rothschildi, peralta ( westafrican or nigerian giraffe ) and reticulata.

      The studbook keeper is not diffrence anymore between peralta and antiquorum, this two westafrican subspecies are now only peralta.
    • cockroach
      Benzoo and Tarsius you are right. I think the middle male Diko is from Antwerpen or Plackendael. And these three males represents all the giraffe forms in Europe...or am I wrong (zootierliste doesnt work today)?
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