Something highly unusual happened in the valley Thursday that sounds like the beginning of a bad joke. Ozzie, a 3-year-old giraffe, got painting lessons.

Ozzie, the only giraffe in Nevada, has become a bit of a celebrity at Lion Habitat Ranch in suburban Henderson, where — admittedly with a bit of help from humans — he has learned to paint ...

They’ve since painted and hidden dozens of their own rocks at the preserve. Isabella Stephen, 7, of Ridge, found her first rock at the Holtsville Ecology Center. “Right before the goats ...