These were some hungry giraffes!

Dublin Zoo is the proud owner of a four day old baby giraffe, born last Sunday, at the zoo in the company of the female giraffes.

Say cheese!

Knowing he hasn’t long left Mario, a mentally disabled cancer patient, had to say one last farewell to the giraffe he befriended working at a zoo in Rotterdam.

Danes have defended the killing of a healthy giraffe at Copenhagen zoo that triggered outrage after it was skinned and fed to lions in front of visitors.

Copenhagen Zoo is defending its decision to carry out an autopsy on a giraffe in front of a group of children and their parents.

Copenhagen Zoo turned down offers from other zoos and €500,000 from a private individual to save the life of a healthy giraffe before killing and slaughtering it in front of children to follow inbreeding recommendations made by a European association.