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Giraffes are animals that are big ruminant and are the tallest mammals which have Very long neck with short, upstanding mane, high shoulders sloping steeply to hindquarters; long legs nearly equal in length. The word giraffe means (camel marked like a leopard) .They have spotted pattern on their skin. They have a long prehensile tongue for grasping food and using their tongue for kneeling and drinking by spreading their legs wide apart. They live in Very social; found in loosely organized herds of up to 50 individuals. Giraffes main predators are lions, hyenas, wild dogs; usually only calves are vulnerable. Both young and adults are hunted by humans.
Bharat feeding the reticulated giraffe
Masai Giraffe from San Diego Zoo
Reticulated giraffe at San Diego Wild Animal Park
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