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 snares, guns and other weapons. Giraffe hair is ...

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 ...