Giraffes are best known for their towering necks, but their beautifully spotted coats are just as distinctive — and they serve important functions. One reason is for camouflage; a giraffe's spots help ...

We're in Tanzania on safari, when two stately looking giraffes walk into view, looking thoughtful, gentle, as giraffes do, and all of a sudden one of them drops way low and swings his whole neck and ...

As the tallest land animals on earth, giraffes are of course famous for their height, ranging between 4 and 6 metres – most ...

Giraffes are a beautiful and powerful example of what adaptive evolution can achieve. However, in recent years they have attained notoriety for a completely different reason: it has been suggested ...

Giraffes might be facing extinction, with their numbers dropping over 40% in the last three decades, but there's an effort to save the long-necked creatures, and it involves a procedure familiar to ...

The tallest mammals in the San Diego Zoo have welcome a new member to the fold: a 14-month-old male giraffe. The baby comes from the Dallas Zoo and is called Kicheko, which translates to “laughter” in ...

A PETA official dismissed the implication that there are no baby giraffes: “The existence of these calves has not been disputed until now,” said Daphna Nachminovitch, senior vice president of Cruelty ...

Saharan Africa towers the giraffe, draped in mosaics of brown and tan patches. Long regarded as a single species, this iconic ...

Giraffes are so stoic that many researchers once thought the animals were totally mute, making their romantic ventures something of an enigma. Now, a pair of scientists has learned something new about ...