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 ...

Giraffe fight! Discovery caught a rare instance of these usually gentle creatures duking it out for territory on camera. Once we get past the Spaghetti Western music, these two start whipping their ...

On 22nd March, at Hongshan Forest Zoo in Nanjing, Jiangsu, two giraffes suddenly entered "combat mode," swinging their long necks to strike each other. Their swift and powerful movements were a stark ...

In the video posted by Polish Dr Dolittle on YouTube, we get to see a fascinating encounter between a giraffe and a rhino in a zoo enclosure. The young rhino, likely a juvenile, looks like a playful ...

New research finds that giraffes much prefer flat terrain and do not traverse slopes of more than 20°, which severely limits the areas in, and outside, protected reserves they can access. The findings ...

Sometimes playing looks like fighting, and this is as true for members of the animal kingdom as it is for my kids at the pool ...

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 ...

Giraffes are best known for their towering necks, but their beautifully spotted coats are just as distinctive — and they serve important functions. One reason is for camouflage; a giraffe's spots help ...

Giraffes, with their bizarre body plan, have always held a special place in the minds of evolutionary biologists and non-experts alike. In a new study whole-genome sequencing data was used to ...

A Penn State researcher has been trying to get to the bottom of the age-old question of why giraffes have long necks. Ed Reschke Getty Images Editor’s note: The Focus on Research column highlights ...