{"id":211073,"date":"2022-10-19T19:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T13:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=211073"},"modified":"2022-10-19T19:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T13:52:17","slug":"giraffes-brought-to-india-150-years-ago-from-africa-may-be-a-critically-endangered-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/giraffes-brought-to-india-150-years-ago-from-africa-may-be-a-critically-endangered-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Giraffes brought to India 150 years ago from Africa may be a critically endangered species"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>Giraffes brought to India 150 years ago from Africa may be a critically endangered species<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on <b>19th October 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a study, the Giraffes brought to India by Britishers may be a critically endangered species.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>About the study<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About 150 years ago, British colonialists brought batches of what they thought were a single species of the northern giraffe to India from their other colonial possessions in Africa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These now comprise a captive population of 29 individuals of northern giraffes across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A study was recently conducted on these giraffes at Alipore Zoological Garden in Kolkata.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researchers confirmed that the giraffes in this facility are most likely <strong>\u201ccritically endangered\u201d Nubian giraffes<\/strong> (Giraffa camelopardalis camelopardalis) or the <strong>endangered Rothschild giraffe<\/strong> ( Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi).<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the significance of this study?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are different giraffes in captivity in Mysuru, Chennai, Patna, Guwahati and Hyderabad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As both the Nubian and Rothschild giraffes are listed as \u2018critically endangered\u2019 and \u2018endangered\u2019 by the IUCN respectively.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, it is important that the Central Zoo Authority conducts further studies of the giraffes in captivity so that the species are not interbred with each other and the giraffes\u2019 germplasm is preserved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> There is little to no information on where the giraffes brought to India from Africa had been captured, so the only way to identify the species would be through a mitochondrial gene study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cGiraffes brought to India 150 years ago from Africa may be a critically endangered species\u201d published in The Hindu on 19th October 2022. What is the News? According to a study, the Giraffes brought to India by Britishers may be a critically endangered species. About the study&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/giraffes-brought-to-india-150-years-ago-from-africa-may-be-a-critically-endangered-species\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Giraffes brought to India 150 years ago from Africa may be a critically endangered species<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-211073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}