Camelopardalis

The results, which she presented first in a 1958 paper for the Zoological Society of London and later in a 1976 book, “The Giraffe: Its Biology, Behavior, and Ecology,” established her as the world’s leading expert on the gawky-legged, mottled Giraffa camelopardalis.

In 1758, the Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus described a single species of giraffe: Giraffa camelopardalis.

Naval Observatory, it can be found in the constellation Camelopardalis.

Though the calf has no name, she’s officially a Giraffa camelopardalis subspecies tippelskirchii , which can weigh up to 2,700 pounds and grow up to 17 feet tall.

The dozen traces are consistent with tracks made by today’s Giraffa camelopardalis, Helm and coauthors write, and are the best evidence that giraffes lived in this part of South Africa during the latest part of the Pleistocene.