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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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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.
What is the weight for a full grown giraffe?
Giraffe's are the tallest land animals on earth. They are well known for their extremely long neck and legs. It is around 5 to 6 meters tall (Around 16 to 20 feet). Males are usually taller and heavier than females. A male giraffe can weigh an average of around 1200 kilograms (2600 pounds) while females weigh an average of around 830 kilograms (1800 pounds)
How do you identify a giraffe?
Yes. Male giraffes tend to be taller, have larger bumps between their eyes, and the "horns" on their head are larger.
How long is a gariffe pregnant for?
Gestation in a Giraffe Mother lasts for around 400 to 460 days. This works out to nearly 13 to 15 months of pregnancy. Baby Giraffe's are born after nearly 400+ days of preganancy. At birth, they are around 6 feet tall. That is 1.8 meters height at birth. They weigh around 100 to 150 pounds at birth
A giraffe's predators are animals like lions, spotted hyenas, leopards and crocodiles, who will all take giraffe calves when the opportunity arises. Adult giraffes are very large animals, and the only predators capable of taking them on are lions. By working together, they are able to kill adult giraffes, but this is not very common - a giraffe's kick can kill a lion, and they usually prefer to hunt less dangerous prey.
How long is a Giraffe's esophagus?
A common length of the esophagus of a giraffe is about 40 inches. That compares to about 8 to 10 inches in a human being.
What is on top of a giraffe's head?
The things on the top of the giraffes head is called Ossicones. (Also called horn)
Another thing about the ossicones is that some believe the horns are cooling towers and release heat. Others that it's just a way to protect their heads.
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Is a giraffe a mammal or a reptile?
A rhinoceros is a mammal, because it has viviparous birth--its babies live off a placenta in utero and are born live, and because it nurses its young.
