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Giraffes range across diverse African habitats − we’re using GPS, satellites and statistics to track and protect them

  • Written by Michael Brown, Conservation Science Fellow, Smithsonian Institution
imageAn average giraffe has a home range almost as large as Philadelphia.Michael Brown, CC BY-NC

Nearly 6,000 years ago, our ancestors climbed arid rocky outcrops in what is now the Nigerian Sahara and carved spectacularly intricate, larger-than-life renditions of giraffes into the exposed sandstone. The remarkably detailed Dabous giraffe rock art...

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