# Oh oh - Looks like Giraffes have been banned from the internet **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 19, 2026, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-oh-looks-like-giraffes-have-been-banned-from-the-internet/1032435 "2026-08-19T17:49:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JimNightshade](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jimnightshade/32/3354_2.png) [@JimNightshade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimNightshade)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-oh-looks-like-giraffes-have-been-banned-from-the-internet/1032435/1 "2026-08-19T17:49:37Z")
Them darned Giraffes! ---
**Author:** ![JimNightshade](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jimnightshade/32/3354_2.png) [@JimNightshade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimNightshade)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-oh-looks-like-giraffes-have-been-banned-from-the-internet/1032435/2 "2026-08-19T17:51:04Z")
No wait - they are back and kicking dust again. Sorry for the unintentional panic attack. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-oh-looks-like-giraffes-have-been-banned-from-the-internet/1032435/3 "2026-08-19T17:58:54Z")
Which sub species are you concerned about and what are we supposed to do about it? And isn’t there a watering hole somewhere y’all can wait it out? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-oh-looks-like-giraffes-have-been-banned-from-the-internet/1032435/4 "2026-08-20T06:39:51Z")
I think it’s a reference to [The Giraffe Boards](https://www.giraffeboards.com/index.php), a small SDMB offshoot. Like every other surviving board I know of, they are under siege by “AI” company bots looking for data to scrape. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-oh-looks-like-giraffes-have-been-banned-from-the-internet/1032435/5 "2026-08-20T17:39:09Z")
Could be “Okapi”😀 ---
**Author:** ![JimNightshade](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jimnightshade/32/3354_2.png) [@JimNightshade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimNightshade)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-oh-looks-like-giraffes-have-been-banned-from-the-internet/1032435/6 "2026-08-20T17:41:39Z")
yeah, thanks Der\_Trihs ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-oh-looks-like-giraffes-have-been-banned-from-the-internet/1032435/7 "2026-08-20T21:20:24Z")
A struggling breed, doomed like the quagga ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2026, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-oh-looks-like-giraffes-have-been-banned-from-the-internet/1032435/8 "2026-08-21T08:45:58Z")
Err, maybe not so much… > **[Quagga Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quagga_Project)** > > The Quagga Project is an attempt by a group in South Africa to use selective breeding to achieve a breeding lineage of Burchell's zebra (Equus quagga burchellii) which visually resemble the extinct quagga (Equus quagga quagga). In 1955, Lutz Heck suggested in his book Großwild im Etoshaland that careful selective breeding with the plains zebra could produce an animal resembling the extinct quagga: a zebra with reduced striping and a brownish basic colour. In 1971, Reinhold Rau visited various mu...