giraffe facts!
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EPG/is_n5_v29/ai_16885922/
Giraffes up close - facts about physical aspects and behavior of giraffes - Cover Story
Ranger Rick, May, 1995 by Leslie Dendy
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TREETOP SALAD
Giraffes can nibble treetops that no other animals can reach by standing. In just one day, a giraffe might eat 75 pounds (34 kg) of leaves, twigs, flowers, and fruits. That's like 400 human-sized servings of salad.
For occasional snacks, giraffes eat bird nests, dead animals, and salty soil. And sometimes they chew on bones.
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NOSE PICKER
A giraffe can poke its long tongue up its own nostrils so it can clean them.
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TOOTHY TALE
Giraffes have front teeth only on the bottom jaw. On top is a hard pad (see next page). The teeth and pad work together kind of like a knife and a cutting board. Giraffes use their teeth to snip off leaves and even small branches.
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Originally posted by AThousandYoungthat is so sad. đ
GIRAFFE CLAIMS THIRD VICTIM AT GLOBAL WILDLIFE
UNEEDUS, Louisiana — Veteran wildlife guide Dizzy Dimarco was encouraging visitors to hand feed giraffes when one of the 16ft-high animals reached down and grabbed her by the head.
http://www.hammondactionnews.com/post/411762027/giraffe0210
Originally posted by darvlaythis should spur you on:
Find one instance of a giraffe biting a human and I will concede the possibility. As of now, I have to side with the African. My feverish googling has turned up nothing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals#Giraffes
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Giraffes
Male giraffes have been observed to engage in remarkably high frequencies of homosexual behavior. After aggressive "necking", it is common for two male giraffes to <del> and court each other, leading up to <del> and <del> Such interactions between males have been found to be more frequent than heterosexual <del>.[61] In one study, up to 94% of observed <del> incidents took place between two males. The proportion of same sex activities varied between 30 and 75%, and at any given time one in twenty males were engaged in non-combative necking behavior with another male. Only 1% of same-sex <del> incidents occurred between females.[62]
Humans
See Homosexuality
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Originally posted by zeeblebotTo be precise -- the giraffe's 'canine teeth are splayed out in two or three lobes to comb the leaves off shoots'.
Giraffes have front teeth only on the bottom jaw. On top is a hard pad (see next page). The teeth and pad work together kind of like a knife and a cutting board. Giraffes use their teeth to snip off leaves and even small branches.
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Can you imagine a giraffe combing off someone's ear?
The role of the tongue in gathering leaves is repeatedly emphasised in the literature.
I'm not saying you couldn't set a giraffe up to bite an ear off, but it's just not something the animal is likely to do on its own.
Originally posted by Bosse de NageSo, you would have to tempt it using some sort of a bribe?
To be precise -- the giraffe's 'canine teeth are splayed out in two or three lobes to comb the leaves off shoots'.
Can you imagine a giraffe combing off someone's ear?
The role of the tongue in gathering leaves is repeatedly emphasised in the literature.
I'm not saying you couldn't set a giraffe up to bite an ear off, but it's just not something the animal is likely to do on its own.
http://www.thealexandriazoo.com/visitors/faq.html
WILL THE ZOO ANIMALS BITE?
Yes, all animals are capable of biting. Even the deer. The animals in the collection are not tame. Some are manageable and some the keepers are able to go into the enclosure, but they are all wild animals and are capable of biting or worse.