My Name is BINGWA
by Hanny Heim
Title
My Name is BINGWA
Artist
Hanny Heim
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art Photography
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Bingwa is a male reticulatet giraffe at the Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa Florida
One of the most iconic animals in Africa has a secret. A genetic analysis suggests that the giraffe is not one species, but 4 separate ones - a finding that could alter how conservationists protect these animals.
The researchers suggest replacing the current species name, Giraffa camelopardalis, with four new ones: the southern giraffe (G. giraffa), found mainly in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana; the Masai giraffe (G. tippelskirchi) of Tanzania, Kenya and Zambia; the reticulated giraffe (G. reticulata) found mainly in Kenya, Somalia and southern Ethiopia; and the northern giraffe (G. camelopardalis), found in scattered groups in the central and eastern parts of the continent. The one remaining subspecies is the Nubian giraffe (G. camelopardalis camelopardalis) of Ethiopia and South Sudan. It is a distinct subspecies of the northern giraffe.
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March 18th, 2017
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