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    • Britannica, Volume 12 Giraffe by Richard Lydekker 19447461911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 12 — GiraffeRichard Lydekker ​GIRAFFE, a corruption of Zarāfah...
      324 bytes (578 words) - 16:01, 6 July 2023
    • artiodactyle ungulates represented by oxen, sheep, goats, antelopes, deer, giraffes, &c. The leading characteristics of the Pecora are given in some detail...
      246 bytes (3,142 words) - 10:03, 26 July 2023
    • Stackhouse Atkinson If anyone ever held his head high in this world it is Mr. Giraffe. If you could keep him for a pet he could easily poke his head in at a...
      400 bytes (1,777 words) - 19:13, 2 July 2021
    • king, and nearly all the other large game of Africa, except ostrich and giraffe, are found here in large numbers. Hippos and huge crocodiles ascend even...
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    • distance of twenty-four yards. Giraffa camelopardalis (Northern Giraffe).—The history of the Giraffes brought to London in 1836 is probably familiar to many;...
      630 bytes (2,613 words) - 05:43, 20 July 2022
    • destitute of water, and tenanted only by the wild ox, the ostrich and the giraffe. Still farther south is the fairly fertile district of Damerghu, of which...
      224 bytes (557 words) - 00:53, 5 February 2022
    • and Flora.—The animals of Nigeria include the elephant, lion, leopard, giraffe, hyena, West-African buffalo, many kinds of antelope and gazelle and smaller...
      722 bytes (10,293 words) - 04:43, 7 October 2021
    • frequently at a total loss to distinguish trees from giraffes or giraffes from trees." The giraffe is now confined to Africa, although in Pliocene times...
      535 bytes (6,188 words) - 09:13, 1 October 2018
    • present day possess some form or other of horns or their equivalents. In the giraffe, which in a few points (mostly delusive) approaches the camels, the horns...
      671 bytes (5,108 words) - 11:53, 1 October 2018
    • Andersson 1641290Lake Ngami1861Charles John Andersson ​   LIONS PULLING DOWN GIRAFFE.   ​ LAKE NGAMI; OR, EXPLORATIONS AND DISCOVERIES DURING FOUR YEARS' WANDERINGS...
      596 bytes (9,404 words) - 22:35, 18 July 2018
    • right, and on looking over the crest, I was delighted to see two beautiful giraffe feeding peacefully a little distance away and straining their long necks...
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    • an extraordinary North American Miocene giraffe-necked camel (Alticamelus), a creature of the size of a giraffe, with similarly elongated neck and limbs...
      287 bytes (3,176 words) - 17:56, 26 July 2023
    • plant is also found. The fauna includes the elephant, rhinoceros, buffalo, giraffe, lion, leopard, cheetah, roan-antelope, hartebeeste, kudu and many other...
      252 bytes (2,104 words) - 20:00, 18 November 2021
    • which are very like men; the giraffe, hippopotamus, rhinoceros (ri-nos'-e-ros), and zebra. Animals of Africa. The giraffe (ji-raf') is the tallest of all...
      337 bytes (3,133 words) - 11:15, 10 July 2013
    • pronghorn in a separate family, the Antilocapridæ, intermediate between the giraffes and the Bovidæ. The horns of the female are rudimentary. The pronghorn...
      224 bytes (668 words) - 04:16, 12 January 2022
    • Sobieski), Vulpecula et Anser (Fox and Goose), Cerberus, Camelopardus (Giraffe), and Monoceros (Unicorn); the last two were originally due to Jacobus...
      500 bytes (2,631 words) - 10:51, 29 April 2016
    • giraffe (Camelopardalis) as tall as the African species but more slender; and also an extinct genus Helladotherium, not quite so tall as the giraffe but...
      46 KB (7,428 words) - 15:16, 25 August 2021
    • so familiar a fact that there are two quite distinct species of Giraffe, one a northern form from Somaliland, and the other South African. The distinctness...
      335 bytes (19,908 words) - 05:42, 12 February 2017
    • Nogal; the dol or Somali bushbuck; the dibatag or Clarke's gazelle; the giraffe-like gerenuk or Waller's gazelle, very common; the aoul or Soemmering’s...
      864 bytes (8,739 words) - 11:06, 10 November 2023
    • the European variety. Antelopes and gazelles occur in large herds; the giraffe is found in the region of the upper Senegal; the elephant is rare; the...
      664 bytes (6,845 words) - 11:07, 10 November 2023
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