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What is the genus of a northern giraffe?
Giraffe
Northern giraffe/Genus
What family is the giraffes in?
Giraffids
Giraffe/Family
Giraffidaegiraffes and okapis. This family includes only two living species, the giraffe and the okapi. These two very different animals are restricted to subSaharan Africa. Giraffids are large (okapis) to huge (giraffes); weights range from around 250 kg to over 1500 kg.
What is the giraffe Kingdom?
Animal
Giraffe/Kingdom
What is the scientific name of a Masai giraffe?
Masai Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) Marked with jagged spots, the Masai Giraffe, also known as the Kilimanjaro Giraffe, is the largest subspecies of giraffe.
What order is a Masai giraffe in?
Artiodactyla
Masai Giraffe Fact Sheet
| Class: | Mammalia |
|---|---|
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Giraffidae |
| Genus: | Giraffa |
| Species: | camelopardalis |
What is a group of giraffes called Wikipedia?
A group of giraffes is called a tower.
Who named the giraffe?
Carl Linnaeus originally classified living giraffes as one species in 1758. He gave it the binomial name Cervus camelopardalis. Morten Thrane Brünnich classified the genus Giraffa in 1762….Evolution.
| Tragulina | Tragulidae |
|---|---|
| Pecora | Antilocapridae Giraffidae Cervidae Bovidae Moschidae |
What does a Rothschild giraffe look like?
What Do Rothschild’s Giraffes Look Like? The Rothschild’s giraffe can be distinguished from other giraffes by its coat. Its coat consists of dark orange and brown patches with areas of beige. It also lacks markings on its lower legs.
How did the giraffe get its name?
The original scientific name for giraffe was Giraffa camelopardalis. This name originated from the thought that a giraffe’s body looked like a camel’s body and its coloration was similar to that of a leopard.
What does genus Giraffa mean?
Definition of Giraffa. : a genus of artiodactylous mammals comprising the giraffes which together with the okapis and extinct related forms constitute a family and sometimes a superfamily of Artiodactyla .
What are the types of giraffe?
The four distinct species are Masai giraffe (G. tippelskirchi), Northern giraffe (G. camelopardalis), Reticulated giraffe (G. reticulata) and Southern giraffe (G. giraffa).
What is the evolution of a giraffe?
The accepted theory on giraffe evolution is that the giraffes with the longest necks passed on their genes through natural selection, and that it took millions of years to get the animal we see now. The two forces that drove giraffes towards elongating their necks are simple. The need to eat and the need to breed.
What is the Kingdom of a giraffe?
Kingdom- Animalia. Animalia is the kingdom the Rhodesian giraffe belongs to because it is a multicellular heterotroph without a cell wall, just like the Albacore Tuna. Phylum – Chordata . Members of the phylum Chordata are triploblastic; having three cell layers, bilateral symmetry, and are deuterostomes; anus developing first.