FMNH 34930

Credit: (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
  • Several men with giraffe
    Photographer: Carl E. Akeley
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Several men with giraffe specimen (Height 17 feet) Zoology mammals cat no. 34930 Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi Carl Akeley collector, (probably April 1906)
FM Catalog: Mammals
Catalog Subset: Specimen
Scientific Name: Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Giraffidae
Genus: Giraffa
Species: camelopardalis
Subspecies: tippelskirchi
Collector: C. E. Akeley
Collection No.: 287
Geography: Africa, Kenya, Coastal Prov, Taita Dist, Voi, Sagalla. [LL]
DWc Country: Kenya
Date Collected: 1906
Preparations: skull,skel
Tissue Available?: No
Co-ordinates Available?: Yes
Sex: Male
Sex: Male
EMu IRN: 2534156
OccurenceID: ebab41b4-7b1b-48f6-bbce-060150b4667b
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