Marwell Zoo, near Winchester, carried out the audit as part of its licence requirements and staff counted more than 500 animals across ... the birth of a “forest giraffe” okapi calf, born ...

From helping them find mates to bettering their ability to camouflage, marks on animals and birds serve various purposes.

"Tucker's birth is very important for us," said Mark Penning, Disney's vice president of Animals ... only around 117,000 existing in the wild, the Giraffe Conservation Foundation in Namibia ...

Giraffe numbers have dropped by 40 percent in 30 years, to about 110,000 in the wild ... lions, forest elephants, white rhinos—giraffes are the most stressful. “With other animals, you ...