Northern giraffe are considered Vulnerable to extinction by the IUCN. In 2016, around 97,000 individuals from all subspecies were present in the wild. There are currently 5,195 northern giraffes. In the current IUCN taxonomic scheme there is only one species of giraffe with the name "G. camelopardalis" and nine subspecies. Three subspecies of northern giraffes are proposed. The giraffes have two horn-like protuberances known as ossicones on their foreheads. The northern giraffe's are longer and larger than that of the southern giraffes', though male northern giraffes have a third cylindrical ossicone in the center of the head just above the eyes which
Giraffe (novel) if Radiohead's 'Idioteque' had mixed with something by Haruki Murakami." The "New York Times" critic was "continually reminded of Harold Bloom's remark about all great books being strange." According to one of the novel's publishers, Penguin Press, ""Giraffe" marks the debut of an unforgettable talent... At once vivid and unearthly, "Giraffe" is a meditation on suffering, on the strangeness of vertical creatures, and on the inhabitants of a middling totalitarian state, sleepwalking through the ‘communist moment’." Giraffe (novel) Giraffe is a debut novel by Scottish writer J. M. Ledgard. "Giraffe" is based on a true Czechoslovakian story, which Ledgard discovered