Samotherium (SciiFii)

The goat-horned giraffe (Samotherium antilopa, name meaning "antelope beast of Samos") is a species of Giraffidae that originally lived from the Miocene and Pliocene of Eurasia and Africa as an extinct species of Samotherium and was once extinct, but has since been brought back from extinction by SciiFii and introduced throughout the open woodlands, grasslands, shrublands, and scrubslands across Eurasia and Africa to help boost biodiversity. The goat-horned giraffe has two ossicones on its head, and it also has long legs for galloping across the open plains. The neck of the goat-horned giraffe is intermediate in length between the giraffe and the okapi. The goat-horned giraffe's ossicones usually points upward, and are curved backwards, with males having larger, more curved ossicones, though in the eastern Asian subspecies, the Chinese goat-horned giraffe (Samotherium antilopa sinense), the straight ossicones point laterally, not upwards. The genus is closely related to Shansitherium. The goat-horned giraffe has a rounded muzzle, and, unlike most giraffids, have a grazing lifestyle more similar to cattle than other giraffids, feeding primarily on grasses, roots, tubers, vegetables, and other low-growing plants. The goat-horned giraffe is a social animal that lives in herds consisting of up to about 50 individuals at a time. The conservation status of the goat-horned giraffe is Least Concern due to successful conservation efforts and the goat-horned giraffe's wide range.
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