{"id":395197,"date":"2021-05-27T14:38:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T17:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=395197"},"modified":"2021-05-27T14:38:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T17:38:20","slug":"gimli-and-nigel-two-dwarf-giraffes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/gimli-and-nigel-two-dwarf-giraffes\/","title":{"rendered":"Gimli and Nigel, two dwarf giraffes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gimli is an adolescent male Nubian Giraffe (<em>Giraffa camelopardalis camelopardalis<\/em>). He was first spotted in December 2015 in Murchinson Falls National Park, Uganda, East Africa, by researchers from the Giraffe Conservation Foundation (GCF). Once every four months, the GCF takes a populational survey in which they photograph and calculate the measurements of these mammals in a number of African countries. Gimli was last seen in March 2017, at which time he measured approximately 2.8 meters (m) in height, at least 0.5 m smaller than the average for giraffes his age\u2014adult male giraffes usually reach 5 m tall. In May 2018, another team from the GCF was introduced to Nigel, a young male Angolan giraffe (<em>Giraffa giraffa angolensis<\/em>) living on a farm in Namibia, southwestern Africa. He was 2.5 m tall when he was seen in 2020, and footage suggested he had difficulty walking. Gimli and Nigel are the first recorded examples of dwarfism in wild giraffes (<em>BMC Research Notes<\/em>, December 30, 2020). &#8220;Instances of wild animals with these types of skeletal dysplasias are extraordinarily rare,&#8221; biologist Michael Brown of the GCF and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, lead author of the study, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gimli and Nigel are the first recorded examples of dwarfism in wild giraffes","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":395297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[266],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-395197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes","tag-zoology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395692,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395197\/revisions\/395692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395197"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=395197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}