ONLINE IN MAY AND SHOULD BE FUN. YEAH, WELL, BACK IN NOVEMBER, A NEW GIRAFFE JOINED THE MARYLAND ZOO. BUT WHEN SHE ARRIVED IN BALTIMORE, THE ZOO DIDN’T. SHE WASN’T ALONE. SHE WAS WITH CHILD ...

Giraffes’ closest living relative is the okapi. An okapi sports a distinctively patterned coat. | Tier Und Naturfotografie J und C Sohns/Photographer’s Choice RF/Getty Images.

Discover the unique okapi, a relative of the giraffe, thriving in the Congo's dense forests despite conservation challenges. Great Big Story Posted: January 20, 2025 | Last updated: March 7, 2025 ...

Populations of subspecies of northern giraffes have declined approximately 77% since 1985, from 25,653 to 5,919 individuals.

Giraffe populations are in trouble — and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday proposed listing three subspecies of the tall animals as endangered and two species as threatened under ...

A 2018 report by the Giraffe Conservation Foundation found about 117,000 wild giraffes are remaining worldwide as of 2016, marking a 30% decline since the 1980s.

Now, U.S. officials are proposing to declare as endangered three subspecies of northern giraffe: the West African, Kordofan and Nubian giraffes, whose population together has plunged by 77 percent ...

At the time, the zoo housed one other giraffe named Pompey, who is no longer listed on the zoo’s website. It’s unclear when Jagar and Milo joined the zoo. Article content.

We have the genome of the giraffe and we can compare it to its closest relative that doesn’t have a long neck, the okapi. The long neck of the giraffe is what gives it the high blood pressure.

Okapi are the Closest Living Relative to the Giraffe Another nickname for the okapi is the “ forest giraffe ,” a nod to their habitat in the dense Ituri Rainforest. If you only had access to a photo ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of dinosaur that could be the closest-known relative of the famed Tyrannosaurus rex. The jaw of the dinosaur was found in 1983 by civilians boating in ...