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Tag: GIRAFFE

$2.5M grant will help with innovative lodging and new giraffe barn

CUMBERLAND − The Wilds will be the recipient of a $2.5 million grant from the Ohio Senate’s One-Time Strategic Community Investment Fund to build a new giraffe barn as part of its conservation efforts and to build innovative lodging that allows guests to interact more freely with the animals in its 30th year of being […]

Scientists finally think they know why giraffe necks are so long

Giraffes have the longest necks of any living animal but scientists can’t agree on why. Scientists largely agree that males drove the evolution of long necks to compete for mates. But a new study offers clues to the contrary, challenging the leading “necks for sex” theory. Giraffes didn’t always look like the elegant giants we recognize […]

World Giraffe Day brings awareness to the endangered animals

TOPEKA (KSNT) – It’s World Giraffe Day and the Topeka Zoo is celebrating. Kids at the zoo, received giraffe ears to wear around the zoo as well as getting to see some things up close including bones, hair and a skull. 27 News got to speak to the Giraffe Zookeeper team on the importance of […]

ABQ BioPark holding 30th birthday bash for June the giraffe

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A giraffee at the Albuquerque BioPark is about to turn 30 years old and the BioPark has a big birthday bash planned. June is the oldest reticulated giraffe at the zoo and her 30th birthday is significant because the median age for a female of her species is around 20 years. In […]

New Discovery Challenges Everything We Thought We Knew About Giraffe Necks

Giraffe ancestors had shorter necks. Why that changed so drastically over their evolution has stirred a surprising amount of debate since the time of Charles Darwin. While a recent theory suggests regulating body temperature may have played a role, the main giraffe neck-elongation contenders are competition over food or sex. Today, these highly social mammals […]

Giraffe lifts toddler out of a pickup truck at Texas wildlife center

A giraffe feeding experience at a Texas wildlife center turned frightening last week when one of the animals hoisted a toddler from the bed of the pickup truck she was riding in. Video shared with NBC News by Jason Toten, the toddler’s father, shows his daughter, wearing pigtails and a pink shirt, holding her hand […]

Giraffe picks up toddler during a family trip to Texas wildlife center

A Texas family had quite the scare at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center on Saturday, when a giraffe picked up a toddler. The Toten family says they were feeding a giraffe from the bed of their pickup truck when the animal accidentally grabbed 2-year-old Paisley’s shirt. Paisley’s mom was sitting in the truck bed with […]

Giraffe picks up toddler during a family trip to Texas wildlife center

A Texas family had quite the scare at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center on Saturday, when a giraffe picked up a toddler. The Toten family says they were feeding a giraffe from the bed of their pickup truck when the animal accidentally grabbed 2-year-old Paisley’s shirt. Paisley’s mom was sitting in the truck bed with […]