The long-legged giants of Africa's savanna plains have often been seen as awkward at negotiating terrain that isn't flat. Now ...

The study shows that giraffes’ natural preference for flat land doesn’t match the places where they are often protected.

Giraffes avoid steep slopes, impacting habitat suitability and conservation efforts in protected African reserves.

New research finds that giraffes much prefer flat terrain and do not traverse slopes of more than 20°, which severely limits the areas in, and outside, protected reserves they can access. The findings ...

who fitted GPS collars to 33 giraffes across five reserves in South Africa. They combined this data with topographic maps to work out the gradients that giraffes could and couldn’t navigate.

across five reserves in South Africa. The researchers combined this data with topographic maps to work out the gradients that giraffes could and couldn’t navigate. Dr Francois Deacon ...

Scientists map over 200,000 underwater hills using SWOT satellite technology New discoveries in oceanography reveal extensive underwater terrain features and their significance to Earths evolution.

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Giraffes, known for their towering height and graceful movement, are facing a surprising challenge: steep terrain. New ...