Zeke (3) and Fennessy (5) call the Cincinnati Zoo home!Giraffes having lunch The Masai giraffe, the largest giraffe ...

Its tongue can reach up to 2 feet, one of the longest in the animal kingdom. This tongue, stacked with saliva, allows the Anteater to grasp ants and termites. Has a tongue that can access things 18-20 ...

Royal Oak — Detroit Zoo visitors will soon see a small, new four-legged friend as part of the zoo's giraffe family. The zoo announced this week that a baby giraffe was born Sunday morning. The female ...

The Detroit Zoo's giraffe population just increased by one. Zoo officials, in a post to Facebook, announced that a new baby giraffe was born Sunday, Nov. 23, at about 2:30 a.m. "This adorable little ...

Giraffes exhibit a unique, fragmented sleep pattern, taking dozens of micro-naps lasting only one to three minutes each. This strategy, averaging just 8.6 minutes of true sleep per night, allows them ...

Giraffes are among the animal kingdom’s most unusual sleepers. They survive on extremely little rest of two hours daily. Their unique sleep patterns balance survival, alertness and the demands of ...

THE ZOO’S REPORTING SOME SAD NEWS TONIGHT. THEY LOST A MEMBER OF THEIR GIRAFFE HERD. ZOLA WAS EUTHANIZED YESTERDAY AFTER SOME GASTROINTESTINAL ISSUES THAT HAD BEEN GOING ON FOR A WHILE. THE ZOO SAYS ...

"My heart was racing so much, I either almost cried or blacked out," bride-to-be Lila Batiari tells PEOPLE Courtesy of Lila Batiari and Zachary Gladnick Love went to new heights when a man had a very ...

Scientists have deployed artificial intelligence models to identify and re-identify endangered giraffes in Tanzania. The Wild Nature Institute partnered with Microsoft’s AI For Good Lab to launch ...

WINDHOEK, Namibia, September 8, 2025 (ENS) – A fresh assessment of the tallest living land animal and largest ruminant on Earth has officially recognized four distinct species of giraffes, overturning ...

We’re used to thinking of giraffes as one species. Turns out there are actually four distinct species of the world’s tallest mammal. That’s according to a review published in August by the ...

The IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority, now officially recognizes four distinct giraffe species, it announced on Aug. 21. Until recently, giraffes across Africa were classified as a ...