With their crane-like necks, spindle legs and knobbly knees, giraffes are among the best-loved and most recognizable of animals. Despite their elevated stature, however, giraffes have kept their ...

SACRAMENTO — It's a primal urge for most animals, but for the male giraffe, finding out the right time to approach a mate has been mired in mystery, until now. See, the female giraffe shows no outward ...

The African continent contains a plethora of creatures great and small, but none stick out quite like giraffes. They tower ...

The behavior of giraffe groups with calves is influenced more strongly by the risk of predators than is the behavior of all-adult groups, which is mostly determined by the availability of food. The ...

Everything in biology ultimately boils down to food and sex. To survive as an individual you need food. To survive as a species you need sex. Not surprisingly then, the age-old question of why ...

A giraffe gave birth to an unexpected calf at the Maryland Zoo, officials said. Zookeepers said they didn’t know Kipepeo, the 4-year-old mama giraffe who had arrived at their facility in Baltimore in ...

With their crane-like necks, spindle legs and knobbly knees, giraffes are among the best-loved and most recognizable of animals. Despite their elevated stature, however, giraffes have kept their ...