Fifty years from now, will there be Masai giraffes? I don t know. I think it s a 50/50 proposition," Douglas Cavener, who has published a new study on the risks facing the species, told Live Science.
A new study led by researchers at Penn State reveals that populations of Masai giraffes separated geographically by the Great Rift Valley have not exchanged genetic material in more than a thousand years, and in some cases hundreds of thousands of years, suggesting these giraffes are more endangered than previously thought.
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