Maybe it's the big eyes, the silly antennae, the stately walk, the comical splits or the purple tongues that make giraffes a fairly popular animal in zoos, but they have only recently been studied in fields, according to a New York Times article.
Julian Fennessy, executive director of the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, called giraffes "forgotten megafauna."
"You hear all about elephants, Jane Goodall and her chimpanzees, Dian Fossey and her mountain gorillas, but there's been a massive paucity of information about giraffes," said Fennessy.
In fact, scientists have discovered that giraffes have a lot in common with the social elephant.
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