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There are four main species of giraffes, which are further divided into smaller subgroups, although there has been debate as to how many subgroups there are. The four main groups include the Reticulated, the Masai, the northern, and the southern giraffe. Each species has a distinctive look.The tournament’s excesses are made even more disturbing when confronted with the well-document abuses of the low-paid workers who built these stadiums. Estimates range from 6,500 to 15,000 migrant labourer deaths on their construction, as even former FIFA President Sepp Blatter has now said that the tournament should not have been awarded to Qatar. But even a World Cup not shrouded in as much controversy as Qatar’s can still leave significant burdens on a host country.

There is no doubt the stadium’s financial position has improved,” he said, noting that the stadium has been able to host “numerous sporting events and concerts which otherwise would not have been hosted in the Western Cape.” Given the tearing down of the Newlands ground, it is only one in the province with at least 50,000 seats.The 80 kilometre railway network connects 10 station in and around the cities of Johannesburg and Tshwane (which includes Pretoria) and O.R Tambo, the country’s busiest airport, forming “an integral part of South Africa’s 2010 World Cup bid”, according to its project leader, Andrew Van Der Merwe. The calf is a reticulated giraffe ( Giraffa reticulata), one of four giraffe species— until 2016, scientists recognized only one species of giraffe. The last known spotless reticulated giraffe was likely Toshiko, a calf born in 1972 in Tokyo, writes Caitlin O’Kane for CBS News. Only two others have ever been recorded—the older sibling of Toshiko and an individual in Uganda, per Insider. A rare white giraffe and her calf in Garissa county, Kenya, seen in 2017. The pair, Kenya’s only female white giraffe and calf, have been killed by poachers, Ishaqbini Hirola Community Conservancy said on 10 March. Their deaths leave just one remaining white giraffe alive, a lone male. The female giraffe born without its characteristic spots instead boasts a solid brown coat, a phenomenon that hasn’t been observed in any giraffe for more than 50 years. She was born last month at Brights Zoo, a family-owned facility in Limestone, Tennessee. A spotless giraffe was last reported at a Tokyo zoo in 1972. What the birth does show is, in some ways, how little we know about animals,” Bercovitch says to Insider. “There are exceptions to almost every rule in biology.”

In nature, with no interference from man, a male giraffe (called a bull) will live approximately twenty five years, while a female (called a cow) usually lives a little longer. Although it could be argued that car-dominated Gauteng could do with a new, world-class modern transport system, given that millions commute by informal taxis that are often overcrowded and dangerous, the Gautrain has failed to be an effective alternative. The dramatic winning shot of the National Parks Photography Competition 2020 from Peter Stevens depicts a rare osprey swooping on its prey in the Cairngorms National Park.Yet, it’s not just the stadiums that have remained as expensive and underused monuments to FIFA’s excess. Football’s world governing body likes to boast about how its tournament uplifts societies and catalyses big infrastructure projects that have a lasting positive impact on lives long after the tournament is over. The heart of a giraffe weighs almost twenty five pounds and can pump sixty liters of blood every minute, with up to one hundred seventy beats per minute. A giraffe’s blood pressure is high, roughly two times that of a human. A bee buzzes around a branch with catkins in Schwangau, Bavaria. This week it was revealed that Monsanto secretly funded academic studies indicating “very severe impacts” on farming and the environment if its controversial glyphosate weedkiller were banned, an investigation has found.