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 ...

April the giraffe’s pregnancy is approaching its inevitable conclusion as her namesake month nears, with the upstate New York zoo monitoring her noticing “interesting” behavior lately and a lot of ...

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 ...

Many animals respond to an elevated predator presence by increasing their group size. After all, there’s power in numbers, and it can help ensure survival. On the other hand, this logic doesn’t seem ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...