Shansitherium (SciiFii)

The Chinese four-horned giraffe (Shansitherium tragus, name meaning "goat beast of Shanxi"), also simply known as the four-horn giraffe, is a species of superficially moose-like or antelope-like giraffid that originally lived from the late Miocene epoch of Shanxi Province, China, as several extinct species, Shansitherium fuguensis, Shansitherium tafeli, and Shansitherium quadricornis, and was once extinct, but has since been brought back from extinction by SciiFii and introduced throughout the modern open woodlands, grasslands, shrublands, and scrublands across Asia to help boost biodiversity. The Chinese four-horned giraffe has quite a bizarre set of horns: it has a pair of feather-shaped and pinecone-shaped ossicones with long pointy horns growing upwards from the bottom of the ossicones. Its body build is shaped very similarly to those of okapis, but with slightly longers to allow more efficient sprinting in an open plains. The Chinese four-horned giraffe is a rather large animal, growing on average of about 14 feet (4.5 meters) in length, 7.5 feet (2.3 meters) in shoulder height, and weighing around 350 - 600 kilograms. Like long-necked giraffes (Giraffa), the Chinese four-horned giraffe primarily feeds on leaves from the trees, although due to its shorter neck, it feeds on different kinds of trees than what long-necked giraffes feed on. The Chinese four-horned giraffe is a solitary animal that spends throughout most of its life alone except during the breeding seasons. The conservation status of the Chinese four-horned giraffe is Least Concern due to successful conservation efforts and the Chinese four-horned giraffe's wide range.
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