Photo of the year!
This tiny giraffe immersed in the middle of dense vegetation won the grand prize in the Nature Photographer of the Year 2020 competition.
(c) Roberto Marchegiani/NPOTY 2020…
RESCUE
AN endangered giraffe has been successfully rafted to safety from a sinking island that she was living on in Kenya.
Asiwa, the giraffe was in race against time to be rescued after she became separated from her fellow giraffes, as …
Terrorism also threatens giraffes
One of the most famous animal sanctuaries in the Sahel faces a troubled future after suspected jihadists murdered eight people, six of them young French aid workers.
The Koure Giraffe Reserve, located 60 kilometres (35 miles) southeast of Niger’s capital …
Our kind of hero
Even David O’Connor, MS’13, chuckles at the unlikely reality of his life. An Irish national. In Kenya. Working to safeguard giraffes.
Yet that has been O’Connor’s prevailing existence throughout the last decade, a globetrotting life ignited by a childhood fascination …
They eat their sleep away
Eight hours of sleep would be heaven for a giraffe. The gentle and sensitive animals sleep only about four-and-a-half hours within 24 hours – and not even at a stretch.
“This is also due to their enormous size and the …
Shame of the US!
Giraffes facing the threat of extinction
Since the mid-eighties, giraffes have been on a steady decline. Population numbers have dwindled by 40 per cent, leaving around 68,000 mature adults in the wild.
To put it in context, there is reportedly …
Poaching in Kenya because of COVID
A terrible article. But how can we blame these starving populations, abandoned by their government, for turning to bushmeat to survive?
Public killing giraffes for food as virus ravages Kenya’s economy and leaves millions hungry
Lockdown in Kenya has left …
Space Giraffe
Because of the distance the blood has to travel between the giraffe’s heart and its brain or the tip of its legs, the giraffe has developed a remarkably original circulatory system. Its enormous heart (almost 11 kg or 24 lbs.) …
What do you call a group of giraffes?
A group of lions is a “pride.” A bunch of birds form a “flock” (usually, anyway — some birds get special consideration). But what do you call a group of giraffes? As it turns out, the proper collective noun is …
The giraffe’s coup
Why do giraffes have such long necks and zebras have stripes? What does a crowd of sports fans have to do with a herd of gazelles? Have you ever shuddered in horror at the mention of the word “ratel”?
The …