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Living With Giraffes in Eastern Kenya: Welcome and Costs
Residents expressed similar interest in giraffes on their own and neighbouring land. Reports of repeated damage show why that welcome still needs practical support.
Giraffe research, explained.Page 3
The questions, fieldwork and discoveries behind giraffe science. Each story explains an original study, what it found and what remains uncertain.
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Samotherium’s Neck Was Intermediate in More Than Length
A nearly complete fossil neck let researchers compare positions along the spine instead of treating one bone as the whole story.
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What Scans Reveal Inside Damaged Giraffe Feet
Beneath a giraffe’s hoof, several structures share the work of supporting each step. A study after death reveals how damage can involve them together.
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What a Giraffe Does While Eating Matters Too
A study across eighteen zoos separated different ways of feeding—and found that they had different relationships with repetitive tongue movements and licking.
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Where scientists look changes the giraffe survival story
Studies inside parks suggested adult giraffe survival varied little. Sampling a wider management landscape exposed a different pattern.
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When winter changed the menu for Sanbona's giraffes
Sweet thorn fed giraffes through much of the observed year. Winter brought a different leading food plant and a wider pattern of sightings.
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Uganda's new giraffe populations took years to begin
The first births arrived about three years after release. Following the founders long enough turned an apparently quiet start into evidence of establishment.
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Niger's giraffe recovery survived a harder count
An expanding photo archive created extra giraffes on paper. Correcting those records produced a smaller, more defensible population estimate and preserved the evidence of growth.
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Giraffes at a Quiet Reserve Reacted More to Engine Noise
A hidden loudspeaker let researchers test the disturbance created by a sound, even when no vehicle or aircraft appeared.