Thieving Giraffes Endanger Human Goodwill
Sunday, October 9, 2011 - 07:00
in Biology & Nature
One of the biggest hurdles to conservation is human-wildlife conflict, which can be especially problematic in areas where animals attack humans or cause serious economic losses by eating crops. Across much of Africa, elephants, tigers, and lions have a particularly bad reputation for causing tensions with their human neighbors, but in Niger, the culprit is giraffes--specifically, the only remaining population of white giraffes, Giraffa camelopardalis peralta. (A white giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis peralta) read more