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
The Blue Giraffe The Blue Giraffe "The Blue Giraffe" is a science fiction story on the concept of mutation by American writer L. Sprague de Camp. It was first published in the magazine "Astounding Science-Fiction" for August, 1939. It first appeared in book form in the anthology "Adventures in Time and Space" (Random House, 1946); it later appeared in the anthologies "World of Wonder" (Twayne, 1951), "The Science Fiction Bestiary" (Thomas Nelson, 1971), "Androids, Time Machines and Blue Giraffes" (Follett, 1973), "Isaac Asimov Presents the Great Science Fiction Stories: Volume 1, 1939" (DAW Books, 1979), "" (Bonanza Books, 1983), and "An Anthropomorphic Century"