About the Authors

Nikolaos Kargopoulos

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

nikoskargopoulos@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Biological Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Giraffe Conservation Foundation, Windhoek, Namibia

Jesús Marugán-Lobón

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biological Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Biology, Unidad de Paleontología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, CIPb-UAM, Center for the Integration in Paleobiology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Anusuya Chinsamy

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Bernard R. Agwanda

Roles Resources

Affiliation National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

Michael Butler Brown

Roles Resources

Affiliation Giraffe Conservation Foundation, Windhoek, Namibia

Stephanie Fennessy

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Giraffe Conservation Foundation, Windhoek, Namibia

Sara Ferguson

Roles Resources

Affiliation Giraffe Conservation Foundation, Windhoek, Namibia

Rigardt Hoffman

Roles Resources

Affiliation Giraffe Conservation Foundation, Windhoek, Namibia

Fredrick Lala

Roles Conceptualization, Resources

Affiliation Wildlife Research and Training Institute, Naivasha, Kenya

Arthur Muneza

Roles Resources

Affiliation Giraffe Conservation Foundation, Windhoek, Namibia

Ogeto Mwebi

Roles Resources

Affiliation National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

Moses Otiende

Roles Conceptualization, Resources

Affiliation Wildlife Research and Training Institute, Naivasha, Kenya

Alice Petzold

Roles Resources

Affiliations Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, Museum für Naturkunde—Leibnitz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany

Sven Winter

Roles Resources

Affiliations Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Abdoul Razack Moussa Zabeirou

Roles Resources

Affiliations Giraffe Conservation Foundation, Windhoek, Namibia, Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Julian Fennessy

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Giraffe Conservation Foundation, Windhoek, Namibia, School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.