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UFS: Mysterious Giraffe behaviour may hold clues to why they are threatened with extinction
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Giraffe numbers double in SA even as they decline on rest of African continent
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To understand why giraffes have lost more than 80% of some of their subspecie populations in Africa and are facing extinction in the wild researchers at the University of the Free State in South Africa are looking into their strange ââpatchwork grazingâ habit â eating in one area but avoiding an identical area.
Researchers at the University of the Free State in South Africa are using drones and GPS tracking devices to establish giraffe eating and movement patterns.
This has shown that giraffes will eat in some areas and avoid others with exactly the same vegetation. This strange behaviour lies at the heart of the research and researchers hope it may offer insights into why giraffe numbers are plummeting.
It is an idea so horrifying that it sounds made up: A parasite which bites off its host s tongue and then replaces it, living inside its mouth for the rest of its life.
But in fact, the tongue-eating louse is real and lives inside the mouths of fish - one of which was discovered recently by a shocked student in South Africa.
Don Marx, 27, from Cape Town, was fishing near Cape Agulhas when he hooked the six-pound carpenter fish and discovered the stowaway inside its jaws.
Marx, who happens to study marine biology, had heard of the lice but never seen one in the wild - so snapped a picture to document the moment.