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

PUEBLA, Mexico (AP) — A 4-year-old giraffe named Benito arrived Tuesday at his new home in a large animal park in central Mexico. Now starts the hard part for the gangly post-adolescent: fitting in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Giraffes are a majestic sight in Africa with their long necks and distinctive spots. Now it turns out there are four different giraffe species on the continent, according to a new ...

A mother Rothschild's giraffe tending to her baby. Source: Zoe Muller, used with permission. “Giraffes are such oddball animals. If somebody told you they existed and you didn’t know about them, you ...

Giraffes are known for their peaceful nature and their preference for living together in close family social groups. Although they rarely fight with each other, there are times when two male giraffes ...

Strict restrictions will continue to apply to the trade in giraffes, despite a move to exempt certain populations of the African animal.A vote on the issue on Saturday at the World Wildlife Conference ...

Giraffe populations are in trouble — and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday proposed listing three subspecies of the tall animals as endangered and two species as threatened under the ...