Talk:West African giraffe
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How could "an anti-desertification project" encourage the development of woodcutting businesses?
[edit]"an anti-desertification project for the area around Niamey encouraged the development of woodcutting businesses." Access to the cited source might clear up this mysterious statement.--Wetman (talk) 03:33, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
Who is 'Thomas'?
[edit]I noticed that the naturalist who first identified the West African giraffe was a certain 'Thomas', in 1898- but no records exist of his first name, apparently. Might anyone know who he is, so that we can link his page to his name, as we have done for every other giraffe phenotype? SuperTah (talk) 11:29, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
- Hi, very belated reply as I have only just seen this question, I would suggest that the answer is Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas (21 February 1858 – 16 June 1929) he was a British zoologist at the Natural History Museum" that info is from his Wiki page, the following is from a research article
"First insights into past biodiversity of giraffes based on mitochondrial sequences from museum specimens"
- " In 1898, Lieutenant R.H. McCorquodale shot the fi rst ever recorded giraffe in Nigeria (McCorquodale 1898; Fig. 1A). He sent the skull to Mr. Oldfi eld Thomas at the British Museum in London, who described the subspecies G. c. peralta based on the “elongation of the face […] with a very large spatulate nasal opening […] and a more vertically upright direction of the ossicones” compared to other northern and southern races (Thomas 1898). The type locality is indicated as “southeast of the junction of the Benue and Niger” (Thomas 1898). However, we agree with Lydekker (1904) that Lokoja (Nigeria), which is located in the V-shaped area to the north of the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers, is a more probable type locality, because the Benue and Niger rivers may have acted as barriers against giraffe dispersal towards the south of Nigeria (Happold 1969)."
- I don't often contribute to Wikipedia pages as I haven't fully mastered how to cite sources, otherwise I would update this page, with information on the Giraffe Conservation Foundation's recent reintroduction of West African Giraffes to the Gadabedji Reserve, creating a new population in Niger. 2A00:23C7:7691:B601:E4A5:105A:57AB:BC01 (talk) 01:05, 30 April 2025 (UTC)
Physical properties could be added
[edit]Ho weight or height is given. 75.213.3.214 (talk) 04:10, 27 February 2023 (UTC)