Until now, researchers had thought that all giraffes belonged to only one species, made up of up to nine subspecies that looked slightly different from each other. A few previous studies ...

Different giraffe species face different risks. Some are among the most threatened large mammals in the world. While the ...

And yet, throw a male Masai and a female Rothschild’s giraffe, a male Rothschild or a female Reticulated–or any combination thereof–together in a zoo enclosure, and those different species ...

The paper notes that “wild giraffes are highly mobile and can interbreed in captivity,” which may explain why biologists assumed they were all the same species (just with slightly different ...

Giraffes, with their distinctive ... There are many different definitions of what constitutes a separate species. Whether we regard the lineages described here as separate species or not, it ...

State of Giraffe report says that the animal is still under threat of extinction, despite some populations recovering.

However, in recent years they have attained notoriety for a completely different reason: it has been suggested that instead of one giraffe species, there might be no fewer than four different species.

suggesting there may be four distinct species, each of which live in a different part of Africa. If that’s the case, the northern and reticulated giraffe species may each have fewer than ...

There are four giraffe species with different spot patterns and the spotlessness seen in the baby Angolan is likely caused by genetic mutations or a recessive genotype that creates their typical ...

Take the giraffe. In 1758, the Swedish taxonomist ... has used this concept to classify different species of frogs in Europe. Some of the groups of frogs interbred a lot, whereas others had ...