| Rothschild's giraffe | |
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| A male Rothschild's giraffe at Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Giraffidae |
| Genus: | Giraffa |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | G. c. rothschildi
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| Trinomial name | |
| Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi Lydekker, 1903
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| Rothschild's giraffe's range in light green | |
| Synonyms | |
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G.c. rothschildi (Lydekker, 1903) | |
Rothschild's giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis camelopardalis ) is an ecotype of the Nubian giraffe. It is one of the most endangered distinct populations of giraffe, with 1,399 mature individuals estimated in the wild in 2018.[1]
- ^ a b Fennessy, S., Fennessy, J., Muller, Z., Brown, M. & Marais, A. (2018). Rothschild’s Giraffe.The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species