Its robust neck and head joints were the most complicated ever seen in a mammal. Plus it had a thick-boned skull crowned with a large, disk-like headgear capped with a bowler hat of keratin.

A young giraffe’s neck often flops around as it learns to use its muscles, ... but it eventually finds the strength it needs to hold its head up. View this post on Instagram.

It was a very tall order — but an Oklahoma chiropractor gave a neck adjustment to a 16-foot male giraffe, The Washington Post reports, and he displayed the whole procedure in a series of cuddly ...