📸 PhotoPhoto: Payamfarahani · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons Source
Reticulated Giraffe
Giraffa reticulata (Reticulated Giraffe · アミメキリン)
Not Evaluated (NE) on the IUCN Red List yet.
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 The Giraffe Conservation Foundation compares the coat pattern of the Reticulated Giraffe to cracked tiles.
- 💡 A giraffe's tongue measures 45–50 cm, about 1.5 times a 30 cm ruler and longer than a human forearm (Comparison).
- 💡 Because over 95 percent of wild individuals live outside government-managed protected areas, community-based conservation is crucial (Giraffe Conservation Foundation).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
📖 1. Overview
The Reticulated Giraffe lives mainly in northern and northeastern Kenya. About twenty thousand nine hundred individuals remain in the wild, most of them outside government-protected areas.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
Its coat pattern looks like cracked tiles, with rich liver-chestnut patches divided by crisp white lines.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
Giraffes are browsers that eat leaves of trees and shrubs rather than grass. Although numbers have dropped by more than 40 percent from about thirty-six thousand individuals 35 years ago, some populations are recovering through community and private conservation in northern Kenya.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List: not evaluated (NE) — cross-checked with the Wikidata conservation-status entry
- • mammaldiversity.org — 1006553
- • wikidata.org — Q27497311
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Reticulated giraffe africa.jpg
- • giraffeconservation.org — reticulated-giraffe
- • giraffeconservation.org — are-there-different-types-of-giraffe
- • giraffeconservation.org — facts-about-giraffe
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — David M. Brown, Rick A. Brenneman, Klaus-Peter Koepfli, John P. Pollinger, Borja Milá, Nicholas J. Georgiadis, Edward E. Louis Jr., Gregory F. Grether, David K. Jacobs & Robert K. Wayne · CC BY 4.0
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.