For more than a decade many researchers have compared the DNA of giraffes from all parts of Africa. These studies have ...

After performing the most detailed genomic sequence analysis to date of the world’s tallest land animal, researchers argue for the existence of four distinct giraffe species. But their report, ...

For more than a decade many researchers have compared the DNA of giraffes from all parts of Africa. These studies have revealed that there are four distinct giraffe species: the southern (Giraffa ...

But these tallest of all land mammals are in the ... Illegal hunting is also a problem for the species. Giraffes are poached for their meat in many regions of Africa — as well as for their pelts, ...

For more than a decade many researchers have compared the DNA of giraffes from all parts of Africa. These studies have revealed that there are four distinct giraffe species: the southern (Giraffa ...

When palaeontologist and zoologist Nikolaos Kargopoulos embarked on a research project two years ago to analyse the skull morphology of giraffes, he believed that “a giraffe was just a giraffe”.

A rare baby giraffe species has been born at Chester Zoo in a boost to a special global breeding programme. The Rothschild's giraffe, named Stanley, fell on to a bed of straw at the weekend after ...

For more than a decade many researchers have compared the DNA of giraffes from all parts of Africa. These studies have revealed that there are four distinct giraffe species : the southern (Giraffa ...

Careful management is needed to secure their future and to prevent extinction, either geographically or at the subspecies level - or the complete loss of the species.' A taxidermy giraffe specimen ...