Heartbreaking new photos reveal a 'bumpy' giraffe covered with hundreds of skin lesions due to a rare viral disease. The ...
Ticks can also spread the virus from the blood of an infected individual to a new host, such as a giraffe. In giraffes, papillomaviruses cause scaly lesions on the skin that spread over time ...
Between 2006 and 2015, the United States imported 21,402 giraffe-bone carvings, 3,008 giraffe-skin pieces and 3,744 giraffe hunting trophies. These majestic creatures were once found widely across ...
After seeing the hubbub the giraffe was causing online, Wehner took to Facebook to share photos of the project. In taxidermy, the skin of an animal is kept and then placed on a man-made replica of ...
Giraffe skin and hair is used to make clothing and accessories. Giraffe numbers have fallen by 40% since the 1980s but there has been little conservation work done in comparison to the efforts put ...