An average wild giraffe has a home range of about 140 square miles—nearly equivalent to the surface area of Philadelphia. So how do scientists track and study them? Michael Brown, conservation science ...

Why do giraffes have such long necks? A study led by Penn State biologists explores how this trait might have evolved and lends new insight into this iconic question. The reigning hypothesis is that ...

She is talking about giraffe poop. The scat are surprisingly small for an animal that can grow to the height of two stacked basketball hoops in adulthood. The best samples are at the top of the pile, ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. LoLo the giraffe in the African Grasslands exhibit at the Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium. A pair of scientific discoveries have forced ...

Being extremely tall is sort of a giraffe’s whole thing. So when scientists recently spotted two wild giraffes with relatively short legs—nearly halving their adult height—they were stunned. “The ...

Visually, they are hardly distinguishable, but genetic analyses show: There are four distinct species of giraffe and seven subspecies. This result was obtained by an international team led by Prof. Dr ...

Anne Innis Dagg saw her first giraffe when she was 3. This was at a Chicago zoo during a family visit from her native Canada. Her fate was sealed. The first person to study giraffes in the wild, Dagg ...

A research team led by Monica Bond, research associate at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies of the University of Zurich (UZH), studied giraffes in Tanzania for five ...