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Brown University

Giraffe

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A reticulated giraffe selects a mouthful of a Hibiscus plant at the Mpala Research Centre. The researchers analyzed plant DNA in animal fecal samples to quantify the diet composition for 33 herbivore species.

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Robert Pringle, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University and senior author on the study.

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