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Giraffes are known for their long, impressive tongues, but they have a cool set of teeth in their mouths as well. Even though ...
Though both giraffes and humans have the same number of individual neck bones (known as vertebrae), the two species also have size and structural differences. Just like humans, giraffes are said ...
The tallest land animal, the lanky giraffe, is perhaps the first thing you think of when you picture the African savanna.
There’s something oddly hypnotic about watching a giraffe move, like it’s gliding through the air on stilts. Still, a lot of ...
World Giraffe Day 2025 reminds us that giraffes are in danger. They’re vanishing quietly. We must act now to protect them.
What this says to us is maybe there’s a way for us to leverage this adaptation that took 11.5 million years of evolution, and bring giraffe FGFRL1 to the bedside for my human patients.
In another fascinating detail, giraffes favor either their right paw or left paw just like humans are right or left-handed. When they fight, they have a preference for which side to fight from.
Reasoning about probabilities is something humans can't always manage especially ... since an animal with a relatively small brain—the giraffe—is apparently capable of it.
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A giraffe named Twiga who died over the weekend at an East Texas zoo at the age of 31 was among the oldest giraffes being cared for by humans. Twiga was found dead Saturday morning at the Ellen ...
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