Historically, giraffes were thought to belong to a single species. A new UCT study confirms the startling truth that there ...

The giraffe has a rare genetic condition called leucism, which causes the loss ... could suffer the same fate as his relatives, a female and her seven-month-old calf with similar white skin.

As well as identifying distinct differences between male and female skulls – known ... like structures on their skulls called ossicones. In the northern giraffe (G. camelopardalis), for example ...

Rangers had found the carcasses of the female and her ... due to a rare condition called leucism, which causes skin cells to have no pigmentation. News of the white giraffes spread across the ...