There is no one, but four types of giraffes on the planet. After more than a decade of scientific debate, the International Union for Nature Conservation (IUCN) confirms A report published Thursday, August 21This important change in the classification of the largest terrestrial mammal. “This study marks an important step in the taxonomy of giraffes and reforms the way their diversity is understood and stored”Underlines the IUCN, a reference organization that is particularly responsible for the evaluation of the status of species preservation.
Historically, a single kind of giraffe and nine subspecies were recognized. But in recent years, progress in genetic analysis and the publication of new works have argued in favor of a revision of this classification. Especially in 2016, Said scientistsFrom mitochondrial DNA analyzes, that it was necessary to distinguish four species. “Since then there has been a formidable number of studies that have investigated the Taxonomy of Giraffes. Confonted with more and more evidence, we had to investigate the subject”Explains Michael Butler Brown, the GOSG-CO-President, the group specialists in Giraffes and Okapis (who form the Giraffidae family) of the survival of species of the IUCN.
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