giraffe
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Giraffe
By Jordan
Physical Features/Description
• Tallest animals on earth• Grown Giraffes can grow up to 18 feet tall and
newborns are 6 feet tall taller than the average person
• Giraffes have as many bones as humans in their neck
• Most Giraffes have dark spots on light skin• Giraffes have long thin legs
Habitat• Giraffes live up to 25 years they live more years at the
zoo• Young Giraffes eat by taking a small branch into it’s
mouth pulling backwards and combing of the leaf with it’s teeth
• Lions attack the Giraffes• Calf must always keep a sharp eye out for pred0ors• In the wet season food is plentiful and Giraffes don’t
need to stretch to reach the juicy leaves
Diet/Behavior
• eat by taking a small branch into it’s mouth pulling backwards
• rare for Giraffe’s to be in a group of Giraffe’s of 12 • tallest trees are beyond the reach of a giraffe’s stretch• soon as the giraffes start to run the other animals
flee too• When they fight their necks can get tangled up with each other
Interesting facts • Giraffe’s special name is camelopardolis
Photo Credit• 'Giraffe Portrait - Woburn Safari Park -+Monday+August+27th+2007'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66164549@N00/1300905195• 'Giraffe & Sky'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35528040@N04/36349202• Urbin giraffe