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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 111- 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 





Pie. 76. — Southern Giraffes. 



ex-German territory, and in North Western Ehodesia. 

 A few also inhabit the Sabi Game Reserves 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 



