Cleveland, Ohio - Captivating photos of elephants and leopards in the wild, including leopard cubs nestled in trees, and friendly, “kissing” giraffes are the stuff of new children’s book by author and ...

It's not often you land in a foreign country and wake up to a kiss from the local wildlife. But it can happen in Kenya. It's where a herd of endangered Rothschild giraffes makes its home at the ...

Even even-toed ungulates get into public displays of familial affection Oh, you’ve got something on your nose, honey. Let Mommy get that … Whoops! Didn’t mean to give you a giant kiss! At least we ...

An all-ages wish-granting organization in the Netherlands took a former zoo worker dying of cancer back to the zoo where he used to work, and one of the giraffes gave him a good-bye kiss. The tender ...

A photo of a giraffe apparently recognizing and kissing a man dying of cancer in the Netherlands went viral, according to video from buzz: 60. A 54-year-old man known only as Mario spent most of his ...

K. Annabelle Smith is a freelance writer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she covers all things interesting and strange for Smithsonian.com’s “Food and Think” blog. She spends her free time hiking ...

A giraffe kissed a dying zoo worker goodbye in a heartbreaking moment that has gone viral. Mario Eijs, 54, had spent 25 years cleaning the animal's enclosure and doing odd jobs at a Dutch zoo. His ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A group of young pranksters should know by now that it's not OK to kiss and tell, especially if you're trespassing and a giraffe is involved.Police in Albuquerque were ...

The city of Nairobi is undergoing a serious renaissance. With the burgeoning tech and design scenes creating a new middle class, the capital of Kenya is seeing a boom in incredibly chic bars and ...