[RightWhale]

Giraffes laugh at people. Elephants are just annoyed by the mere existence of people.

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"The female Maasai giraffe may be looking at the male reticulated giraffe and thinking, 'I don't look like you; I don't want to mate with you'," Mr Brown explained.

:^)

[NonValueAdded]

Will DNA decoding lead to a change in biological toponymy? Or, as the article suggests, just a word game to get funding and protection?

[MediaMole]

If the different “species” can interbreed and produce fertile offspring, then they are just different breeds of giraffe. Unless they want to start calling a German Shepard a different species from a Labrador Retriever.

[Steely Tom]

Giraffes are insincere.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

“Giraffe populations have dropped by 30% over the past decade”

OK, so if there ARE multiple species, which ones are least fit?

And is there not a government program for these underprivileged?

Darwin, bah humbug.

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In other news, heard near the herd:

Hey Baby, wanna NECK?

[Soliton]

If they don’t taste good, who cares?

[unspun]

If giraffes can reproduce across these differentiations, they are manifestly not separate “species.”

[Calvin Locke]

That "Dirty Jobs" show did a day at the zoo. The pooper-scooper guy said giraffe poop was probably his favorite, since it passes through four stomachs, and comes out looking like Kix cereal.

So off to the giraffe area they went....

[jwalsh07]

From the giraffes point of view thier necks are too short, from their predators point of view they grin and see dinner while Mr Giraffe quenches his ample thirst.

[RavenATB]

Gee...well, then all those species must be endangered, right...

[isom35]

I wonder what giraffe would taste like.

[GladesGuru]

“Mr Brown also highlighted the conservation implications of this study: “Lumping all giraffes into one species obscures the reality that some kinds of giraffe are on the brink.

“Some of these populations number only a few hundred individuals and need immediate protection.” “

The sum and substance of this article’s agenda is that if giraffes can be divided by the infamous “trinomial (subspecies), then funding can be justified.

This is the old Lumpers v. Splitters argument. Those wanting to split species based on minor coat patterns are either grad students seeking a thesis or established scientists seeking Endangered Species Act funding.

The rest of us know what a giraffe knows - If it looks like one, it IS one.