By Leonie Varin
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Jumae and G. gracilis. Of the evolutionary possibilities, the best conclusion is that G. camelopardalis is derived from G. gracilis rather than G. jumae. 4. Giraffes evidently found the African environment congenial and G. camelopardalis was clearly found in prehistoric and historic time from the north to the south of the continent. Lydekker (1904), who reported the results of 20 years of arduous data collection, that had the aim of classifying G. camelopardalis by variations in skin markings, ossicones and geographical distributions, was able to distinguish 11 subspecies.
See Kordofan above). With fewer than 700 indi viduals remaining in the wild, in 2010 the Rothschild’s giraffe was listed on the IUCN Red List as ‘endangered’ and of high conservation importance (Fennessy & Brown 2010). Efforts in 2011 to reintroduce individuals back into the Lake Baringo area have proved successful. ISIS reports more than 450 individuals in cap tivity. The Rothschild’s giraffe has large, dark rectangular spots or blotches set irregularly against a cream‐coloured background, though the legs are noticeably white and are not pat terned.
C. camelopardalis) from eastern Sudan and western Eritrea were not sampled. Some of their samples were taken directly from the wild, but 13 were taken from individual giraffes in zoos whose subspecies ori gin was known. 3 (a) The map of East (1999) shown with the colour scheme of Hassanin (2007). (b) Phylogenetic tree of the 12 giraffe haplotypes. The tree was constructed with a Maximum Parsimony method. At the end of the terminal branches, the coloured circle matches the subspecies group in (a).