Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A female giraffe browsing. Everything in biology ultimately boils down to food and sex. To survive as an individual you need food.

Giraffes are amazing animals. When I've seen them in East Africa, I'm always amazed by their majestic appearance and how gracefully they can move their long-legged and long-necked body. Giraffes also ...

Two currently-unnamed four-year-old giraffes have arrived at the Central Florida Zoo. The female giraffes will be separated from Gage, the male giraffe, until they have adjusted to the habitat and ...

Visitors to the San Antonio Zoo now have the chance to see their newest addition to their Naylor Savanna, Waffles, a female Reticulated giraffe. Waffles officially joined the giraffe herd last Friday, ...

The newest baby at a popular western Pennsylvania animal park is already 154 pounds and nearly 6 feet tall. Keystone Safari, the 144-acre animal and adventure park near Grove City, announced Aug. 26 ...

Why do giraffes have such long necks? A study led by Penn State biologists explores how this trait might have evolved and lends new insight into this iconic question. The reigning hypothesis is that ...

BALTIMORE — The Maryland Zoo says its latest resident, a 3-year-old reticulated giraffe, is settling in nicely but is in need of one particular thing: a name. The female giraffe arrived from another ...

A new study suggests that the spot patterns decorating giraffes’ coats may serve a social function. Researchers, writing in the Journal of Zoology, found that female giraffes prefer to associate with ...

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Douglas R. Cavener, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) Everything in biology ultimately ...