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1)Long Neck enables them to reach high branches, spot predators easily. They also fight with their necks
2) Brain has one way valves to prevent it filling with blood when giraffe bends down, thus causing brain damage
3) Tounge long and prehensile. allows the giraffee to eat from very prickly branches
4) Young are k-selected and able to walk from birth to avoid predators. Mothers give birth standing up for the same reason
5) Rumination to allow the stomach to digest high levels of cellulose and tough leaves, through 4 stomach chambers
6) Can survive for weeks without drinking, gaining enough fluid through dew on vegetation
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How is a giraffe adapted to live in open and dry grasslands?
A giraffe has adapted to live in open and dry grasslands by the evolution of it's long neck. This enables to reach things that are high and normally out of reach for other animals.
How did giraffe adapted to its environment?
A giraffe is most vulnerable when it is drinking water. Therefore it has adapted to be able to go without water for long periods of time. Its tongue and lips are black, to prevent sunburn when they're eating.
How is a giraffe adapted to cross a river?
they have strong and long legs that help them cross deep rivers
If a giraffe habitat change to live in rainforest what will the giraffe behavioral and physical adaptation to surive in its new habitat?
A giraffe is adapted by having a long neck to reach the leaves off of the tallest trees. So they can eat the leaves.
How are giraffe adapted by their ability?
they have long necks so they can reach the leaves in the trees and they can see when predators are coming from a distance.
How are giraffe long necks adapted to their life style?
they use their necks to get leaves from trees
How is the giraffe adapted to its envronment?
Over millenia the Giraffe has evolved to have an extremely long neck, which allows it to reach leaves on trees that cannot be reached by other herbivores, thereby being able to remain healthy and feed their young more easily.
Terrestrial habitat is habitat of giraffe?
Yes because, in terrestrial habitats giraffes have a dominant vegetation, meaning the habitat they are adapted to. Basically supplies them with nutrients and minerals ;)
Why giraffe cannot live in Arctic?
For lots of reasons. It is too cold. There is nothing there for them to eat. There is no shelter there.
What are the different kinds of giraffe?
There are six; Reticulated Giraffe Masai Giraffe Rothschild Giraffe South African Giraffe Thornicroft Giraffe Nigerian Giraffe
What do Rothschilds giraffe Masai giraffe Reticulated giraffe Thornicorts giraffe Kordofan giraffe Angolan giraffe and Southern giraffe look like?
It seems incredible, but they look like giraffes.
Which animal is best adapted for feeding on the leaves of the trees?
tall/long- so it can reach high.
