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HABITAT INCONSISTENCIES

A life-size giraffe-shaped topiary beside a gravel path and greenhouse.
Habitat observation

Giraffes are said to live within hot and temperate climates. However, many hot temperate climates have never reported a sighting of giraffes.

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61points

The habitat section is short, but it is asking the question the longer replies keep avoiding. Hot conditions exist in many places. The sightings stay concentrated in places where there is already an explanation for a giraffe being there.

If temperature is the explanation, why does the explanation need a separate list of permitted places?

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cansleeve
Collapse or expand reply by cansleeve

Temperature is not the only condition in a habitat. Food, water and other animals matter.

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rustred
Collapse or expand reply by rustred

Then the descriptions should stop beginning and ending with the temperature.

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brickwork
Collapse or expand reply by brickwork

When there is one somewhere else it is described as an escape. That puts it back inside the zoo explanation even while it is outside the zoo.

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metricsea
Collapse or expand reply by metricsea

No report and no animal are not the same observation. But I agree that a map of reported sightings would be more useful than repeating “Africa”.

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windowseat
Collapse or expand reply by windowseat

And put ticketed places on that map differently. It is still a claim about where somebody was allowed to look.

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kestrel
Collapse or expand reply by kestrel

Are we counting places without them, or places nobody here has checked? Those are not the same list.

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