But these tallest of all land mammals are in the midst of a silent extinction. Africa's giraffe population has dropped by almost 40 percent in the past 30 years, dwindling to just more than 97,000 ...

ANTELOPE: Go on, get out of the way! GIRAFFE: Hold on! You don't have to push and shove, boys! There's plenty of leaves for us all, you know. GRANDDAD: But the antelopes weren't listening.

A giraffe’s heart weighs around 25 pounds and generates double the blood pressure of an average human heart. This allows it to pump blood all the way up to the brain, ensuring proper circulation ...

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 ...

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