Fashionable magazines promoted interior designs using giraffe-based colours and patterns. Women wore their hair piled up high “à la giraffe”. The Camelopard, or A New Hobby (1827) by satirist ...

Illegal hunting is also a problem for the species. Giraffes are poached for their meat in many regions of Africa — as well as for their pelts, bones, hair and tails — by hunters and trappers wielding ...