Another rare spotless giraffe found — the first ever seen in the wild Just weeks after a giraffe at a U.S. zoo was born missing its characteristic spots, anotherspotless giraffe calf has now been seen and photographed in the wild for the first time. Theunprecedented sighting occurred at Mount Etjo Safari Lodge, a private game reserve in centralNamibia. Tour guide Eckart Demasius saw and photographed the solid-brown calf during a gamedrive on the roughly 90,000-acre reserve, according to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation.Demasius, who was not immediately available for comment, shared his photos with the giraffenonprofit. Sara Ferguson, a wildlife veterinarian and conservation health coordinator at the foundation,says the two recent spotless sightings are pure coincidence and that there’s no data to suggestthis coloring is occurring more frequently than it had in the past. This finding is just anotherexample of “the weird way the world works” she says, adding that she’s “so amazed and pleasedthere is so much more to learn and discover about giraffes”. The spotless reticulated giraffe born at Brights Zoo in Limestone, Tennessee, earlier thissummer was recently named Kipekee, which means “unique” in Swahili. The recent wild sightingoccurred in another giraffe subspecies found in southern Africa, the Angolan giraffe. Before theserecent births, a giraffe with all-brown coloring was last seen at a Tokyo zoo in 1972. Scientists, including Ferguson, believe the solid coloring is likely due to one or more geneticmutations that haven’t yet been identified. Some aspects of giraffe spots are passed down frommother to calf, according to a 2018 study in the journal PeerJ, and larger, rounder spots appearto be linked to higher survival rates for younger giraffes, but the reasons for that remain unclear.Derek Lee, a biology professor at Penn State University and a co-author on the PeerJ study, saysthat technically these two recent examples are not spotless animals, but instead — "one-spot-all-over giraffes". He’s said that it’s impossible to say what this genetic anomaly means for theanimal’s health, but there’s no evidence the color difference puts the animal at a disadvantage.“We have a sample size here of one, so time will tell what happens”.(Available at: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/spotless-giraffe-found-in-the-wild-for-the-first-time – text especially adapted for this test). The underlined word “finding” (l. 10) could be replaced, with no significative changes in meaning, by:

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Ano: 2023

Banca: Fundação Universidade Empresa de Tecnologia e Ciências - FUNDATEC

Prova: FUNDATEC - Prefeitura de Rolante - Professor - Área: Língua Inglesa - 2023

Another rare spotless giraffe found — the first ever seen in the wild

Just weeks after a giraffe at a U.S. zoo was born missing its characteristic spots, another
spotless giraffe calf has now been seen and photographed in the wild for the first time. The
unprecedented sighting occurred at Mount Etjo Safari Lodge, a private game reserve in central
Namibia. Tour guide Eckart Demasius saw and photographed the solid-brown calf during a game
drive on the roughly 90,000-acre reserve, according to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation.
Demasius, who was not immediately available for comment, shared his photos with the giraffe
nonprofit.
Sara Ferguson, a wildlife veterinarian and conservation health coordinator at the foundation,
says the two recent spotless sightings are pure coincidence and that there’s no data to suggest
this coloring is occurring more frequently than it had in the past. This finding is just another
example of “the weird way the world works” she says, adding that she’s “so amazed and pleased
there is so much more to learn and discover about giraffes”.
The spotless reticulated giraffe born at Brights Zoo in Limestone, Tennessee, earlier this
summer was recently named Kipekee, which means “unique” in Swahili. The recent wild sighting
occurred in another giraffe subspecies found in southern Africa, the Angolan giraffe. Before these
recent births, a giraffe with all-brown coloring was last seen at a Tokyo zoo in 1972.
Scientists, including Ferguson, believe the solid coloring is likely due to one or more genetic
mutations that haven’t yet been identified. Some aspects of giraffe spots are passed down from
mother to calf, according to a 2018 study in the journal PeerJ, and larger, rounder spots appear
to be linked to higher survival rates for younger giraffes, but the reasons for that remain unclear.
Derek Lee, a biology professor at Penn State University and a co-author on the PeerJ study, says
that technically these two recent examples are not spotless animals, but instead — "one-spot-
all-over giraffes". He’s said that it’s impossible to say what this genetic anomaly means for the
animal’s health, but there’s no evidence the color difference puts the animal at a disadvantage.
“We have a sample size here of one, so time will tell what happens”.

(Available at: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/spotless-giraffe-found-in-the-wild-for-the-first-time – text especially adapted for this test).

The underlined word “finding” (l. 10) could be replaced, with no significative changes in meaning, by:

Locating.

Encounter.

Discovery.

Looking.

Experiment.

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