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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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The okapi is most closely related to the giraffe. Family Giraffidae.
What eats giraffes in grasslands?
Giraffes have few predators due to their size, however they can fall prey to lions. Calves are more vulnerable and can also fall prey to leopards, spotted hyenas and wild dogs. Giraffes are also vulnerable to crocodiles when taking on water.
Giraffes are in the animal kingdom. To be more specific, it is a mammal and vertebrate. (has a backbone)
Which has more bones a giraffe neck or a mouses neck?
a giraffes neck has more bones than a mouses neck
Actually, they both have 5 cervical vertebra.
How many vertebrae are in a giraffe spine?
A giraffe's cervical spine, like most mammals, has 7 vertebrae. They are, however, about 11 inches long.
Do all fish have the same number of bones?
Not exactly. They perform a similar function and are made of basically the same chemicals but because fish live under water, they have to handle different stresses and strains so they are different (lighter) in their proportion, design and construction.
Why do giraffis have long legs?
then they can reatch leaves and they can kick enimys
So they can reach high branches and so they can kick enemies.
Giraffes have long legs to be able to reach leaves in tall trees. and when there is a baby that cant reach they sometimes give the leaves to the child or give him a smaller bush/tree to eat from.
because they have to be able to reach the top of a tree to get the leaves
What is the size of the giraffe?
Giraffes are the world's tallest animals, some males having a height of 6 meters and weigh up to 1,900 kg.
Males reach a towering 19 feet tall and weigh between 2400 and 4250 pounds. Females measure up to 17 feet tall and weigh between 1540 and 2600 pounds. A lot of this height and weight is because of the giraffe's incredibly long neck, which can be 8 feet in length and can weigh almost 500 pounds.
Wikipedia says:
They can be 4.8 to 5.5 metres (16 to 18 feet) tall and weigh up to 1,360 kilograms (3,000 pounds). The record-sized bull was 5.87 m (19.2 feet) tall and weighed approximately 2,000 kg (4,400 lbs.).
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To make it easier around 16ft. tall
Another answer:
Giraffes are usually 14' to 17' tall when they're adults. The tallest giraffe on record was a male who grew to be 20' tall.
6 foot 3
about 14 to 15 feet
What else eats giraffes than sharks?
(most) Sharks live in oceans, and giraffes don't go swimming, so Sharks don't eat giraffes.
The only animals that regularly eat adult giraffes are lions.
Does a giraffe live in a nest den or burrow?
none of them giraffes sleep standing or curled under a tree or other place
What is the name of the aminal with the long neck?
the Brachiosaurus is one of the many Dinosaurs with a long neck
Who would win in a fight a giraffe or a rhino?
I would think the giraffe would win. Even though the rhino is powerful, it is not very fast. For a lion, getting kicked by a full grown giraffe is usually fatal, and despite the rhino's protective coating, the giraffe would see it, and be ready for attack.
How do giraffes have the same number of neck bones as humans?
Yes, giraffes have 7 neck bones, just like us
Greed is a sin and a human concept. Adam fell into sin, animals did not. Theologically Animals are incapable of Sin. there you have it.
The jaw dentition of a giraffe?
Giraffes have rough molars in their top and bottom jaw. The teeth grind together to crush the vegetation that the giraffe eats. Only the lower jaw contains front teeth; the upper jaw lacks front teeth, but has a hard, ridged palate which aids in the grinding of food.
An adult male giraffe's eyeball is around the size of a golf ball. Giraffes have long thick eyelashes, surrounding the eyeball.
The giraffe's weight or force is the product of its mass times earth's acceleration. Thus, 1470kg = 1470 x 9.80 = 14,406 newtons or about 3,241lbs
Giraffes are related to deer, and cattle, but are more closely related to okapi, the only other animal the family Giraffidae.
