This form of sexual selection could have contributed to the evolution of longer necks in giraffes. A long neck provides giraffes with an elevated vantage point to scan the savanna for predators.

A Minnesota man was shot in the neck as he was cleaning up his yard by a 54-year-old neighbor who had warned him not to touch a specific tree on the property amid nearly a year of “racially ...

The Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens is mourning the loss of one the stars if its Giraffe Feeding area, Rafiki. The Reticulated giraffe helped open the zoo’s giraffe habitat in 2014 ...

Rafiki, a beloved giraffe at the Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens, has died after a long chronic illness, the zoo said. He turned 13 on Oct. 22 – eight days ago. "Over the last several ...