#0244 · 🦊 mammals
Southern Giraffe
🇳🇱 Zuidelijke giraffe ·Giraffa giraffa
🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe
📍 uMgungundlovu District Municipality, South Africa
📍 Mokopane, 0601, South Africa
📍 Chobe, BW-CH-CH, BW
📍 Botswana
📍 Omuthiyagwipundi, Etosha National Park, Oshikoto, Namibia
📍 Oshikoto Region, Namibia
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Andre Harmse · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © simben · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © Tia Offner · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © leuli · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. uMgungundlovu District Municipality, South Africa:© Gavin Hazell · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Mokopane, 0601, South Africa:© Andrew Hankey · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. Chobe, BW-CH-CH, BW:© toxdoc42 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Botswana:© Cliff · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Omuthiyagwipundi, Etosha National Park, Oshikoto, Namibia:© Igal · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Oshikoto Region, Namibia:© margot_oorebeek · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The southern giraffe ( Giraffa giraffa ), also known as two-horned giraffe , is a species of giraffe native to Southern Africa. However, the IUCN currently recognizes only one species of giraffe with nine subspecies.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 14,748 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber in 1784 (242 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Southern Giraffe
- Nederlands
- Zuidelijke giraffe
- scientific name
- Giraffa giraffa
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Artiodactyla
- family
- Giraffidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 14,748
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1784 by Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber
relatives· Giraffidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1510571, Wikidata Q26840221, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.