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[Sanju]

Madhya Pradesh’s ‘tall’ idea: Can we get giraffes from Africa ?

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city...185626.cms

This is really absurd. Extant giraffe species is native to Africa and exotic to Indian subcontinent.

The giraffe genuses that lived in subcontinent are not even close relatives to modern ones and those niches are replaced millions of years ago. African giraffes are evolved to live in savannah, open woodlands and semi arid landscapes of Africa.

Giraffokeryx resembled an okapi or a small giraffe is an extinct genus of medium-sized giraffids known from the Miocene about 15 mya of the Indian subcontinent and Eurasia. It may have shared a clade with more massively built giraffids like Sivatherium

Sivatherium is an extinct genus of giraffids that ranged throughout Africa to the Indian subcontinent. Introducing completely different genus is insanity. Reply