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 ...