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Giraffes
Giraffes are well known for their extraordinarily long necks which they use to eat the leaves on tall trees.
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Giraffe food is simply called food; there is no special name for it (no more than human food, cat food and dog food are all simply called food). Giraffes are herbivores and generally browse on the twigs of trees, but they also eat shrubs, grass and fruit. Other animals can eat these things too, so it would be wrong to specifically call such food as being giraffe food -- it's all just food.
Elephant herds usually consists of a matriarch (an adult female elephant) and a bunch of nursing mothers and other youngters and female elephants. Usually male elephants are not part of any herd. They separate from their herd and go on for themselves when they are around 5 years of age and lead a nomadic life. So, a herd may contain male elephants but they are all young ones and adult males are not part of a herd.
Does a giraffe have a bilateral or radial symmetry?
Yes. Zebras, like all mammals and other vertebrates, have bilateral symmetry. Bilateral symmetry means something has symmetry across one plane (known as the sagittal plane, and directly down the centre of their body), which means one side of their body approximately mirrors the other side.
No, giraffes do not hunt down their food. Giraffes are herbivores and eat plants and leaves. They are grazing mammals.
Giraffes will feed on many different types of vegetation and prefer fresh foliage of acacia, the mimosa bush and even leaves from 100 other plant species.
How many different species of giraffe in world?
There are 6 different types of giraffes. The West African giraffe, the Rothschild giraffe, the reticulated giraffe, masai giraffe, angolan giraffe and South African giraffe. Hope I could help!
How many white giraffes are there?
Many thousands. The white giraffe is not endangered, and because yellow giraffes are, yellow ones are seen as more "exotic". That's why you often see pictures of yellow giraffes and not white ones - wildlife photographers get more money for rarer pictures.
How strong is a giraffe's neck?
Giraffes hind legs and front legs are both very strong, however, its front legs are just a bit stronger than the hind legs as they are shorter.
How would you describe a giraffe?
A giraffes coat is made up of brownish, blackish, orangish, or rusty "spots" -- more like a patchwork -- separated by light-colored or whitish lines. The giraffe also has 2 horns on the head. A giraffe is a vertebrate and has a long neck.
What is the difference between a giraffe in captivity and a giraffe in the wild?
a Giraffe in the wild is more scard of people and could hurt them
What kind of sound do giraffe's make?
Calves (baby giraffes) bleat and make a mewing call.
Cows (female giraffes) seeking lost calves bellow.
Courting bulls (male giraffes) sometimes let out a loud cough!
Also, giraffes have been heard snorting, moaning, snoring, hissing, and making strange flutelike sounds!
What organisms do giraffes depend on to survive?
They eat from the tall trees of the savanna and some birds will hang around them to eat the parasites that may get on them, therefore they stay healthy.
Do the baby giraffe stay in their mother's pouch?
No. In fact, giraffes are a rare type of animal that seem to have no particular herding behavior - they just hang out with whoever, and change herds at random. They do not stay in touch with family, nor do they mate for life (only dominant males are able to mate at all!)
Giraffes breed through sexual reproduction. The females go into estrus every two weeks, excreting pheromones to notify males when she is ready to mate.
== == Giraffes don't have a particular mating season. Female giraffes go into estrus every two weeks throughout the year. When a female is in estrus, she excretes pheromones that let the males know that she is ready to mate. Male giraffes wander around in search of females in estrus with which to mate.
When a male giraffe finds a female giraffe in estrus, he nudges her rear end with his nose to encourage her to release urine. When the female releases urine, the male tastes the urine to see if she is in estrus and ready to mate. A female giraffe will release larger amounts of urine for a male giraffe that she particularly likes. When a male giraffe determines that a female giraffe is ready to mate, he follows the female around until she decides to mate with him. Occasionally the male will try to mount the female in an attempt to mate. If the female has not decided to mate with the male yet, she will casually walk away so that the male can not mate with her. The male may follow the female and repeatedly try to mount her for hours or days. The female ignores the male until she decides to mate with him. Sometimes the female never mates with the male and instead chooses a different male to mate with. If a female giraffe sees a male giraffe that she wishes to mate with, she often goes up to the male and rubs her neck on his. Female giraffes generally choose to mate with the most dominant giraffe available. The most likely reason for this is to establish a strong gene pool in her young.
When the female giraffe decides to allow the male giraffe to mate with her, she stops walking and stands still to let the male mount her. The male giraffe mounts the female giraffe from the behind and mates with her. The mating process is very quick and is rarely observed by humans.
The same way in which a male dog mates with a female dog.
there is one male and one female then they put them together
Why do they have long eyelashes?
GIRAFFES have long eyelashes because it helps them to keep little fragments of wood falling into their eyes as they grab the leaves of the tree or bush. also, female giraffes flirt by fluttering their eyelashes at the male giraffe they like.
I have never heard of a giraffe killing themselves by getting tangled up. But, this may have happened, so my suggestion to you is that, because of how long their necks are, during a giraffe fight two males could've gotten their necks twisted around each others' necks too tightly.
What is similar between a human and giraffe skeleton?
Giraffes and humans are both mammals and therefore share many characteristics. There are things like:
* They are both Vertebrates, meaning that they both have back bones. In fact Giraffe and humans have the same number of vertebra, this number being seven. * Both humans and Giraffes have a heart to pump oxygenated blood around their body. * Both have muscles, bones and tissues made up of very similar substances. * Humans and giraffes both have lungs used to inhale oxygen and exhale waste products, such as carbon dioxide. * Giraffes have red blood, meaning blood that carries oxygen around the body. * Both are warm blooded animals, meaning that they control their body's temperature via internal means, such as shivering or sweating. * Both require nutrients found in food and need water to survive.
* Both have brains, ribs, spines and other main anatomical features. * Giraffes and humans both give birth to live young and suckle their young with milk.
What kind of water do giraffes drink?
They drink water because if they didn't they would die, and if is a way of keeping their body working in the heat of the African day.
Is a giraffe a vertebate or a invertebate?
A giraffe is not an invertebrate, because it has a vertebral column, or a spine. All mammals, like giraffes, are vertebrates that do have backbones, internal skeletons, and the other characteristics of vertebrates (see links for more information on vertebrates and invertebrates). Some examples of invertebrates are insects, mollusks, starfish, jellyfish, earthworms, and other animals and sea creatures that are mostly "mush".
What is the latin name for a giraffe?
Zebra isn't a word in the Latin language so it is plainly just zebra.
How are giraffes different from a zebra?
Giraffes are even toed ungulates (they have two toes) and are more closely related to camels. Giraffes have multiple (4) stomachs. Giraffes chew cud.
Giraffe coloration is white to creamy white backgrounds with various shapes and colors of spots (depending of subspecies) ranging from golden to red to nearly black. Giraffes have skin covered horns. Giraffes don't have top front teeth, they have a hard, toothless palate.
Zebras are odd toed ungulates (they have one toe/hoof) and are more closely related to horses and donkeys. Zebras have a simple stomach. Zebras are
striped and the normal color is black with white. Zebras don't have horns, have both upper and lower front teeth.
How long can giraffe eyelashes grow?
omg! these suckers are long. about the size of an average cabbage patch kid doll. This isn't good because they use them to catch people and then take them to their lair.
