Giraffe population in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwes giraffe populations have only been sampled sparsely and therefore little is known about the general state of their genomic health. We have sequenced 59 new giraffe individuals from 26 populations in Zimbabwe.

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Data and Resources

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Additional Info

Field Value
Geographic coverage
Geographic description Zimbabwe national parks and farms
Bounding coordinates
North: 17.04383
West: 17.96012
East: 19.135832
South: 22.06152
Temporal coverage
Time period
Begin: 2020
End: 2023
Taxonomic coverage
Species Giraffa giraffa giraffa & Giraffa giraffa angolensis
General taxonomic description Giraffa giraffa
Other info
Last Updated October 25, 2023, 09:08 (UTC)
Created October 23, 2023, 08:35 (UTC)

Responsible parties

Creator and point of contact
Name Axel Janke
Organization affiliations
Giraffe Conservation Foundation

Windhoek
Namibia
Website:www.giraffeconservation.org

Associated party
Name Axel Janke
Organization affiliations
Giraffe Conservation Foundation

Windhoek
Namibia
Website:www.giraffeconservation.org
Role Principal investigator

Research data management planning

Types of data that will be / are / were created during the project Taxonomic data
Estimated volume of created data 10TB
Data will be stored at (long-term archived) NCBI, EMBL

Link to this dataset:

https://dataportal.senckenberg.de/dataset/d7915da6-47d6-43b8-a415-389bd3491569