Why is rothschild giraffe endangered

Giraffes live in small herds with males and females living separately outside of the breeding season. Females give birth to a single calf after a gestation period of around 15 months. The subspecies is classified as endangered. The population is estimated to be less than 2, individuals. Numbers have increased slightly since the s but remain very low. The world's largest environment network, the International Union for Conservation of Nature , has added it to its red list of endangered species.

Named after the banker and zoologist Walter Rothschild who first described it, the species joins the West African giraffe on the list, making it the second most threatened of the nine giraffe sub-species.

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