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SOUTH AFRICAN MAMMALS 



mounted male in the Transvaal Museum from the top of 

 the head to the hoof is 18 feet 6 inches, but Bryden gives 

 18 feet Hi inches as the largest measured by him. 

 Females seldom measure more than 16 feet. At present 

 the Giraffe is found in the Northern Kalahari, in adjacent 



Fig. 76. — Southern Giraffes. 



ex-German territory, and in North Western Ehodesia. 

 A few also inhabit the Sabi Game Eeserves of the 

 Eastern Transvaal and Mozambique. 



Giraffes are found in fairly dry country, inter- 

 spersed with sandy hills clothed with Kameel-doorn 

 bush and other dry land shrubs. They are found in troops 

 of from half a dozen to several dozen individuals, feeding 

 in the early part of the morning or in the evening. They 

 have no great pace, when compared with that of a good 



