With their crane-like necks, spindle legs and knobbly knees, giraffes are among the best-loved and most recognizable of animals. Despite their elevated stature, however, giraffes have kept their ...

The tallest land animal, the lanky giraffe, is perhaps the first thing you think of when you picture the African savanna. With their long legs and necks, giraffes’ graceful silhouettes have featured ...

An average wild giraffe has a home range of about 140 square miles—nearly equivalent to the surface area of Philadelphia. So how do scientists track and study them? Michael Brown, conservation science ...

The African continent contains a plethora of creatures great and small, but none stick out quite like giraffes. They tower above the competition. They also look practically alien compared to the more ...

Michael Brown works for the Giraffe Conservation Foundation and is an affiliated researcher for the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. He receives funding from the Giraffe ...