Sub-species of African Lions and Giraffe in UK zoos.

jordan-12 said:
South Lakes have a pure male Peralta Giraffe which is to be joined by 3 female's in several months.
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I believe that all peralta Giraffes in Europe have now been re-classified as antiquorum (Kordofan). This is actually a great help for the studbook keeper as the combined population has a much rosier future. Still equally exciting from an enthusiast's point-of-view as a third subspecies for the UK.
 
Maguari said:
Trust me, the 'peralta' that I've seen at Paris in the past looked nothing like that!
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Awww, so is that just a unique patterning, trick of the light or photoshop? Or is is a different ssp?

Out of curiosity, was it a pure West African that you saw, I heard that there were none in captivity and all 'thought' West African in Europe were in fact Kordofan. I'm likely wrong of course, jus thought I'd heard that somewhere :D

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Giraffa_camelopardalis_peralta_2.jpg - for some reason it's decided that the species picture on Wikipedia is West African for a page about Kordofan...well, that's Wikipedia for you :S

I had heard what I mentioned somewhere other than Wikipedia though, but not sure where :)
 
Javan Rhino said:
I heard that there were none in captivity and all 'thought' West African in Europe were in fact Kordofan.
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That was exactly my point. ;)

I don't know the origin of that photo, but if it's a genuine peralta it's no surprise that the Paris animals don't match it.
 
Maguari said:
That was exactly my point. ;)

I don't know the origin of that photo, but if it's a genuine peralta it's no surprise that the Paris animals don't match it.
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Ahh, gotcha :D. Only just noticed the inverted commas you put around Peralta :)
 
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