Tuesday, February 7, 2012

African Giraffe


 With an average altitude of about 5 feet, the giraffe is the highest land in the whole animal kingdom. In the wild, these animals can live to 25 years.
 Describing the giraffe and its long legs, long neck, and mottled coloration, many people initially thought it was the animal is a mixture of camel and a leopard. But it is not so. 
 Giraffes live mainly in the savanna to the south blezhe
Sub-Saharan Africa. Because of their great height they can eat leaves and shoots are located much higher than those to which access may be other animals. Giraffes love acacia. Long tongue of the animal is very useful in food, because it helps the giraffe to pluck leaves from trees. The giraffe is very eats a lot. Therefore, an adult individual mozhnt to eat 45 pounds of leaves per day.
 The male of this animal is taller and heavier than the female.Both sexes have the head covered with leather
horns, called the "neck" at the top of the head.
"Necks" and smaller females, and have a small bunch of top wool, while the males 'neck' on the bald the top. These horns are designed to protect the head when male giraffes in the fight, when they beat and swings each other's heads.
 Phi movement giraffes move both left legs, then both feet, and then right as oe. This step makes the Giraffe is unique. Giraffes can reach speeds of 55 kilometers per hour.

 The female giraffe can get pregnant at the age of 5 years. They have a child within 15 months and give birth standing up. A newborn giraffe is about 2 m in height and weighs approximately 70 Kg.
 Giraffes sleep less than two hours a day. They sleep feet tucked under him. They can sleep standing up.


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