🦒Welcome to Giraffe Central🦒

Giraffe Central is your guide to all things giraffe!

"A giraffe is a large fleet African ruminant mammal (Giraffa camelopardalis) that is the tallest of living quadrupeds and has a very long neck and a short coat with dark blotches separated by pale lines" (Mirriam-Webster).

A hoofed animal, distingushed by their distintive coats, horn-like ossicones, and long neck.

Currently, there are four extant species of giraffe, all told apart based on their coat patterns:

Name	Subspecies	Images
Northern Giraffe - Giraffa camelopardalis	Kordofan Giraffe - G. c. antiquorum Nubian Giraffe - G. c. camelopardalis Rothschild's Giraffe - G. c. rothschildi West African Giraffe - G. c. peralta
Reticulated Giraffe - Giraffa reticulata	Somali Giraffe - G. c. reticulata
Masai Giraffe - Giraffa tippelskirchi	Masai Giraffe - G. t. tippelskirchi Thornicroft's Giraffe - G. t. thornicrofti
Southern Giraffe - Giraffa giraffa	Angolan Giraffe - G. g. angolesnsis South African Giraffe - G. g. giraffa

There are seven extinct species of Giraffe.