On a private game reserve, Intu Afrika, the acacia trees hide giraffes, oryx, eland and ostriches. |
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As for antelopes, baboons, chimps, crocodiles, gazelles, giraffes, hippos, hyenas, warthogs and zebras, well, they're ten a shilling. |
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However, even this broad pattern is not universal, for giraffes, impalas, and kongoni have their peak of births at the driest time of year. |
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A good idea is to board the little train which encircles the zoo enclosure and allows you to see the giraffes, hippos, zebra, camels and rhinos. |
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Madagascar's landscape may not be a bad fit for lions, giraffes, zebras, and hippos. |
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The preserve is home to elephants, giraffes, zebra, and various species of antelope and monkey. |
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The researcher believes giraffes may use Helmholtz resonance, causing the air in their long windpipes to vibrate at a low pitch. |
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Our fathers used to hunt giraffes, water-bucks and antelopes and eat their meet. |
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It's been observed in many other bird species besides parrots and macaws, as well as elephants, macaques, giraffes, rhinos and chimpanzees. |
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Living with elephants and giraffes, and seeing lions hunt and kill, was fantastic. |
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The giraffes are exquisite, fashioned from a deep, polished engraving into the living rock. |
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Lions, tigers, jaguars, giraffes, orang-utans and emus were some of the other creatures we saw. |
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Other finds at the site show that Ardipithecus lived alongside a menagerie of animals, including antelope, rhinos, monkeys, giraffes and hippos. |
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Serengeti also accommodate immense herds of buffaloes, elephants and giraffes, bubals, imapalas and Grant gazelles, hippos. |
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Tsavo West is filled with crocodiles, vervet monkeys, antelope, baboons, giraffes and hippos. |
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Leopards, lions, giraffes and hippopotami will parade before your camera lens to turn a bumpy Jeep ride into the trip of a lifetime. |
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Humans and giraffes have seven neck vertebrae, while many squamates have eight. |
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Long-necked giraffes and camels have the same seven neck bones as do short-necked mice and men. |
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Before us stood, with their heads lifted high up, a troop of eighteen or twenty giraffes, or camelopards. |
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So he and his ensemble created a show featuring nine giraffes, each manned by two actors and a pair of stilts. |
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We saw giraffes, penguins, kangaroos, polar bears, cassowaries etc., so there were quite a few animals which were unusual in that environment. |
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Many larger mammals such as giraffes, striped hyenas, western kob, bushbuck and sitatunga are now considered extinct in the area around the lake. |
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The family had a wild time in Disney's Animal Kingdom and enjoyed close encounters with giraffes, hippos, lions and tigers. |
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Elephants, ostriches, leopards and lions were imported in the first century B.C., followed by hippopotamus, rhinoceros, camels and giraffes. |
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Mozambique a great diversity of animal life, including zebras, water buffalo, elephants, giraffes, lions, hippopotami, and crocodiles. |
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The White Oak plantation in the north of the state is a 7,500 acre area of conservation where rhinos, cheetahs, zebras and giraffes roam freely. |
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Some of the animals highlighted in the photographs include lions, cheetahs, rhinos, hippos, giraffes and chimpanzees. |
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The winter conditions mean that animals like the flamingos, kangaroos, impalas and giraffes have been pulled from their snow-drenched haunts. |
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Not far off the trails we saw giraffes and various herds of gazelle, impala, and zebra. |
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As for the movie scenario, what if several zebras, hippos, giraffes, and lions were introduced to the island? |
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The geophone is capable of tracking not only elephants, but also other large mammals, including giraffes and lions. |
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Imagine all of these scholars bringing exotic animals like giraffes back from distant lands to London and people gawking at them. |
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The roads and pathways are lined with sculpted, totem-like lamp-posts in the shape of equine beasts, including giraffes, horses or deer. |
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The desire to reach higher leaves led to longer necks, and later on, the giraffes ' offspring inherited that physical trait. |
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Imagine a world without giraffes, zebras and antelope, except locked in cages for the paying public. |
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There were grazing giraffes, ostriches and above all, these wonderful elephants. |
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Lions, leopards, elephants and giraffes roam the game reserves, and to see them in the flesh is a marvellous experience. |
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These animals include giraffes, penguins, macaques, bonobos, and geese. |
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Herds of zebras and giraffes search for water on a thirsty continent. |
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While at a Kenyan beach resort last month they decided to return to the Maasai Mara animal reserves to see animals such as giraffes, lions and elephants. |
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You've got elephants, giraffes, carousels and merry go-rounds. |
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Here all manner of wild and exotic creatures, tigresses, giraffes, and wild birds among them, were sent out for slaughter in combats and artificial hunts. |
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The inventory concludes with a list of animals and half-human creatures, noting tigresses, vultures, and giraffes together with mythical unicorns, pans, and centaurs. |
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Okapis and giraffes are very different in their ecology and behavior. |
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In Eurasia the fauna included early deer and giraffes, the giant indricatheres and chalicotheres that were quite different from the American types. |
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All the fascinating stories about the bones of dinosaurs, chalicotheres, dinotheres, mastodons, giant giraffes, and mammoths are gathered in my book. |
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To get to class, students travel a path known as the Warthog Trot, a winding trail through the bush that's also used by giraffes, kudu, wildebeests, and impalas. |
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Add up all the lions, elephants, warthogs, giraffes, gazelles, zebras, impalas, topis and hyenas that live on these plains and they fail to outnumber the gnus. |
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The first deer and giraffes also appear, along with the first hyenas. |
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The hippos snorted, the rhinos dozed and the giraffes nervously darted about as the hammer fell yesterday at Africa's largest wild animal auction. |
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The western part of Kenya's largest national park boasts the Mzima crystal springs, a haven for hippos, elephants, gazelles, zebras, and giraffes. |
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There are 1,000 animals, including tigers, giraffes, even rhinos. |
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The 14 species of the game include giraffes, zebras, sables, kudus, elands, impalas, pukus, waterbucks, reedbucks, siatoongas, bushbucks, common buickers and graycebucks. |
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The birth of the new giraffe forms part of a breeding programme for Rothschild's giraffes at the safari park, which had seen another giraffe born only four weeks before. |
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Male giraffes occasionally wander far from areas that they normally frequent. |
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Then we went to see the condors, coatis, forest buffaloes, giraffes, okapis, red river hogs and on to the chimpanzees. |
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For a shilling you could get a big packet of colourful perforated postal appendages displaying palm trees in Barbados and giraffes in Nyasaland. |
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First I'd head north to Samburu or Buffalo Springs to see Grevy's Zebras, reticulated giraffes and the gerenuk antelope. |
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We first saw the giraffes as they lolloped along Church Road towards Debenhams. |
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The chance to gaze pop-eyed at roaming wildlife including zebras, wildebeest, elephants, buffalo, giraffes and those endangered rhinos. |
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After a duel, it is common for two male giraffes to caress and court each other. |
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Nile crocodiles can also be a threat to giraffes when they bend down to drink. |
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Various species are predicted to become extinct in the near future, among them the rhinoceros, primates, pangolins, and giraffes. |
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After a year, the seven men returned with commodities and valuables that they had purchased, which included giraffes, lions, and ostriches. |
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They even brought back exotic animals, such as ostriches, elephants, and giraffes. |
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A 2016 study also concluded that living giraffes consist of multiple species. |
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Bohlinia closely resembled modern giraffes, having a long neck and legs and similar ossicones and dentition. |
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Further climate changes caused the extinction of the Asian giraffes, while the African giraffes survived and radiated into several new species. |
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The coat patterns of modern giraffes may also have coincided with these habitat changes. |
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This includes adjacent populations of Rothschild's, reticulated, and Masai giraffes. |
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Reticulated and Masai giraffes have the highest mtDNA diversity, which is consistent with giraffes originating in eastern Africa. |
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However, one objection is that it fails to explain why female giraffes also have long necks. |
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During nighttime, giraffes appear to hum to each other above the infrasound range for purposes which are unclear. |
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Tick species that commonly feed on giraffes are those of genera Hyalomma, Amblyomma and Rhipicephalus. |
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Individual captive giraffes were given celebrity status throughout history. |
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Normally, giraffes can coexist with livestock, since they do not directly compete with them. |
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The Humr people of Sudan consume the drink Umm Nyolokh, which is created from the liver and marrow of giraffes. |
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A 2011 study using detailed analyses of the morphology of giraffes, and application of the phylogenetic species concept, described eight species of living giraffes. |
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Comparisons between giraffes and their ancient relatives suggest that vertebrae close to the skull lengthened earlier, followed by lengthening of vertebrae further down. |
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Spermatogenesis in male giraffes begins at three to four years of age. |
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During the wet season, food is abundant and giraffes are more spread out, while during the dry season, they gather around the remaining evergreen trees and bushes. |
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Necking helps young male giraffes test which one has a stronger neck. |
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The number of giraffes in a group can range up to 44 individuals. |
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Early giraffes appeared, and camels migrated via Asia from North America. |
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The team used MRI scanners to analyse the arrangement of canals and eye muscles in 51 species of mammal including giraffes, camels and zebra, tree shrews, bats and sloths. |
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Throughout Zimbabwe, 64 percent of kudu, 63 percent of giraffes, 56 percent of cheetahs, and 53 percent of sable antelope and impalas were on private ranch properties. |
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Giraffes are also missing from the crater as they favour the umbrella acacia and wait-a-bit thorn trees found higher up. |
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Giraffes have been extirpated from much of their historic range including Eritrea, Guinea, Mauritania and Senegal. |
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Giraffes appear to select mates of the same coat type, which are imprinted on them as calves. |
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Giraffes would probably not be competent swimmers as their long legs would be highly cumbersome in the water, although they could possibly float. |
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Giraffes have unusually high heart rates for their size, at 150 beats per minute. |
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Giraffes can also suffer from a skin disorder, which comes in the form of wrinkles, lesions or raw fissures. |
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Giraffes are the most common prey for the big cats in Kruger National Park. |
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Giraffes host numerous species of internal parasite and are susceptible to various diseases. |
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Giraffes have oesophageal muscles that are unusually strong to allow regurgitation of food from the stomach up the neck and into the mouth for rumination. |
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Giraffes were probably common targets for hunters throughout Africa. |
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