This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. At 14 to 19 feet tall, giraffes tower over the entire animal kingdom. But their iconic height, which evolved over ...

Giraffe numbers have dropped by 40 percent in 30 years, to about 110,000 in the wild. This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Of all the large African mammals ...

Time was running out for Asiwa, a Rothschild’s giraffe in western Kenya. For years, she and seven other giraffes had been living on a peninsula that reached out into Lake Baringo. But rising ...

I stood there thinking, "Heck, of all the ways to die as a new National Geographic explorer, this was the dumbest. Walking into the butt of a giraffe and getting kicked in the face for it ...

KWS captures 60 hyenas in restive Juja villages One Tourist, One Tree: Kenya's bold initiative to enhance tree cover through Eco-Tourism According to National Geographic, the giraffes are not albinos.