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 ...

Although male and female giraffes have the same body proportions at birth, they are significantly different as they reach sexual maturity. Females have proportionally longer necks and longer bodies ...

*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 ...

It’s 1996 and paleontologist Jin Meng is exploring the Junggar Basin in Xinjiang, China. The valley is nestled between the mountainous borders of Kazakhstan and Mongolia in the northwest. The Basin ...

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Researchers have combined tagging technology, satellite data and machine learning to create a model that predicts the potential locations of unknown populations of reticulated giraffes in Africa. The ...

I recently had the pleasure of watching an extremely interesting and wide-ranging documentary titled The Woman Who Loves Giraffes, a detailed story produced and directed by Alison Reid about the life ...

A new study suggests that the spot patterns decorating giraffes’ coats may serve a social function. Researchers, writing in the Journal of Zoology, found that female giraffes prefer to associate with ...

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 ...

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 ...