Giraffes are an iconic animal on the African savannah. The only other species in the family Giraffidae are the okapi, which are less well-known forest giraffes found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I will also be having a look at the variety of extinct and ancestral giraffes, which had a wide variety of shapes and sizes of the ossicones on their head.

All pictures attributed to Animal Analytics were taken by me personally. A full description of all others can be found in the following document, along with notable scientific papers I used when researching this topic.

Attributions and Research Papers: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4lk62f...

Timecodes:
00:00 Intro
00:21 Artiodactyla
00:53 Ruminants
02:30 Giraffomorpha
03:13 Palaeomerycidae: Triceromeryx, Tauromeryx, Xenokeryx
04:00 Propalaeoryx
04:32 Climacoceras
05:14 Prolibytherium
05:38 Giraffidae
06:16 Shansitherium
06:35 Samotherium
06:55 Sivatherium
07:36 Extinct Species in Giraffa
08:04 Okapi Distribution and Discovery by Europeans
08:54 Okapi Taxonomic Confusion
09:35 Okapi Description and Behaviours
11:10 Okapi Reproduction
11:59 Okapi Conservation and Conflicts
15:00 Giraffe Taxonomic Confusion
16:13 Giraffe Distribution and Description
19:08 Giraffe Adaptations for Extreme Height
20:10 Giraffe Behaviours
21:35 Giraffe Reproduction
22:45 Giraffe Conservation
23:42 Outro

Thank you for watching, and let me know what animals you would like to see me talk about next.