The giraffe is the tallest land animal on Earth - but height alone doesn’t explain its survival in one of the most competitive ecosystems on the planet. In this video, we explore how its elevated ...

Giraffes are famous for their towering height, but this unique anatomy also shapes one of the strangest sleep patterns in the animal kingdom. Living on open grasslands with little shelter, giraffes ...

A video showing a herd of giraffes – which can grow to as tall as 5.5 meters (550cms) – standing amid a violent rainstorm in ...

But this extreme feature comes at a cost: namely the energy required for the heart to pump blood up to the head against gravity. As a result, giraffes have high blood pressure, more than twice that of ...