Rather than taking advantage of this, the opposing giraffe lines up head-to-toe, or head-to-head with the other giraffe. Each giraffe gets to fight from their preferred side. Amazingly ...

The pictures caused an international stir when the animal welfare organisation WorldWide Vets published an article.

The first Europeans to see giraffes thought they were too strange to be of this world and ... and the emperor of Austria. The French giraffe, Zarafa, trekked by foot from Marseille to Paris ...