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	Giraffe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The giraffe is related to deer and cattle, but is placed in a separate family, the Giraffidae, consisting only of the giraffe and its closest relative, the okapi.
		Male giraffes determine female fertility by tasting the female's urine to detect estrus in a multi-step process known as the flehmen response.
		In Southern Africa, giraffes are partial to all acacias — especially Acacia erioloba — and possess a specially-adapted tongue and lips that appear to be immune to the vicious thorns.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giraffe (1482 words)

	Giraffe - MSN Encarta
		Giraffes have a top speed of about 56 km/h (35 mph), but because its legs are so long a galloping giraffe does not appear to be going very fast.
		Giraffes spend up to half their time feeding, and most of the remainder is taken up either by searching for food or slowly digesting what they have eaten.
		The average home range of a giraffe is about 150 sq km (44 sq mi), although giraffes can spend their whole lives in an area as small as 5 sq km (1.5 sq mi) in regions where food is abundant throughout the year.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561060/Giraffe.html (1636 words)

	Masai Giraffe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Masai giraffe is the tallest land animal and largest ruminant.
		Female giraffe horns are thin and hair-tufted, and male horns are thick and bald on top.
		The Masai giraffe is one of nine sub-species of giraffe that are primarily determined by coat pattern and region.
	www.racinezoo.org /massai_giraffe.htm (318 words)

	Masai Giraffe - Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi
		Masai giraffes are one of nine subspecies of the giraffe.
		Lions, hyaenas and poachers are the main enemies of the Masai giraffe.
		The Masai giraffe is one of nine subspecies of the giraffe, which includes the reticulated, Rothschild's and Nubian giraffes.
	www.angelfire.com /mo2/animals1/deer/masai.html (365 words)

	RWP Zoo : African Giraffe
		This high pressure is needed to force blood up their long neck to their brain.To maintain the pressure, a giraffe's heart is two feet long, weighs 25 pounds and has walls three inches thick.The tallest giraffe on record lived in a London zoo and attained a height of 20 feet.
		Giraffes exhibit considerable variations in hair color and pattern, the most common being the reticulated pattern (square block pattern).
		Giraffes defend themselves by fleeing or, if standing ground to protect their young, by kicking with either fore or hind legs.
	www.rogerwilliamsparkzoo.org /what_to_see/africa/african_giraffe.cfm (694 words)

	Nature-Wildlife The photography and behavior of the Giraffe
		At a given moment a giraffe may be in a herd composed of all males, all females, females and young, or of both sexes and all ages or all alone if it is a mature bull or a cow guarding a new calf.
		Also height and excellent eyesight enable giraffes to maintain visual contact at long distances a dozen may be dispersed over 1/2 mi (0.8 km) of savanna and still be in a herd.
		In fact giraffes rarely cluster together unless they happen to be attracted to the same tree, nervous over the presence of lions, or aggregated in the open.
	www.nature-wildlife.com /girtxt.htm (1437 words)

	Giraffe Trivia and Facts
		The Giraffe is the tallest animal of all.
		Giraffes have knobs or horns on the top of their heads that are used to protect the head in fights.
		Giraffes are social animals that travel in large herds consisting of both males and females of all ages.
	www.ssnoah.com /zoo/giraffe.html (364 words)

	Masai Giraffe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The giraffes, the tallest animals on earth, have seven neck bones, the same as in humans.
		Masai giraffes are found in the savannas of Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia and Tanzania in Africa.
		The giraffe is a vegetarian and will feed on spiny or thorny plants (mainly acacia) which it handles easily with its prehensile upper lip and very long tongue.
	www.mtnviewfarms.com /2003site/masagiraffe.html (215 words)

	African Wildlife Foundation: Wildlives
		Early written records described the giraffe as "magnificent in appearance, bizarre in form, unique in gait, colossal in height and inoffensive in character." Ancient cultures in Africa revered the giraffe, as some modern cultures do today, and commonly depicted it in prehistoric rock and cave paintings.
		Giraffes are found in arid and dry-savanna zones south of the Sahara, wherever trees occur.
		The giraffe is a selective feeder and although it feeds 16 to 20 hours a day, it may consume only about 65 pounds of foliage during that time.
	www.awf.org /wildlives/118 (853 words)

	Welcome to the L.A. Zoo
		The Masai giraffe is found on the savannas and grasslands of Africa in the countries of Kenya and Tanzania.
		Giraffes are herbivorous and feed by browsing on leaves, twigs, bark, flowers, and fruit from more than 60 different plant species.
		Long, powerful legs enable the giraffe to run at a speed of 35 miles per hour to escape from a predator, and, if escape is impossible, a kick capable of killing a lion is the next line of defense.
	www.lazoo.org /animalfact_arch.asp?id=28 (403 words)

	San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Giraffe
		The giraffe is a ruminant and has a stomach with four compartments that digests the leaves it eats.
		Giraffes can have up to three of these large bumps, two in the rear of the skull and one in the forehead region, so that it may look like they have five horns.
		Giraffes have a way of moving, or gait, in which both the front and back legs on one side move forward together, then the other two legs on the other side move forward.
	www.sandiegozoo.org /animalbytes/t-giraffe.html (1213 words)

	Wikinfo \| Giraffe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) is an even-toed ungulate mammal and the tallest of all living animal species.
		such pressure would force the blood out through the capillary walls: giraffes, however, have a very tight sheath of thick skin over their lower limbs which maintains high extravascular pressure in exactly the same way as a pilot's g-suit.
		While adult giraffes are too large to be attacked by most predators, the young can fall prey to Lions, Leopards, hyenas, and African Hunting Dogs; as such, it has been speculated that their characteristic spotted pattern provides a certain degree of camouflage.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Giraffe (565 words)

	Kenya Tourist Attraction Pictures
		Masai giraffe bends its long neck to eat from a bush in Nairobi National Park.
		Rothschild giraffe and warthogs at the Giraffe Centre near Nairobi.
		Masai gourds used for mixing the milk and blood of cattle.
	www.planetware.com /photo-list/kenya-ken.htm (2043 words)

	Giraffe Information
		"The masai giraffes are found in the African savannahs of Kenya and Tanzania".
		"The reticulated giraffe is smaller than the other giraffe subspecies, with the males being 12-15 ft tall and the females being 14 ft tall".
		"Reticulated giraffe are confined to north-eastern Kenya, eastern Sudan and Eritrea".
	www.junglewalk.com /info/giraffe-information.htm (698 words)

	Digital Consultancy
		Masai Giraffe The Masai giraffe, at up to 18 feet tall, is the tallest animal in the world.
		Giraffe are herbivores and have a prehensile upper lip and tongue that they use for grasping and tearing leaves and twigs from trees and bushes.
		Giraffes are so big that they can’t hide from predators, like lions and crocodiles, but their speed, the way they move, and their body designs help them to escape if they need to.
	www.zooatlanta.org /rare_care/low_risk.htm (812 words)

	giraffe
		The tallest recorded giraffe was 5.88m tall (average height is 5.3m for males and 4.3m for females).
		Giraffes are browsing animals that use their long necks and tongues to reach leaves and shoots beyond the reach of other grazing animals.
		Giraffe drink water if it is available but can go weeks without it; they rely on the morning dew and the water content of their food
	www.wellingtonzoo.com /animals/animals/mammals/giraffe.html (552 words)

	Giraffe Gallery Text Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Reticulated giraffes are one of the several subspecies of giraffes.
		Giraffes are native to the savannas of Africa.
		Masai giraffes are one of the several subspecies of giraffes.
	www.giraffehaven.com /giraf004.html (747 words)

	Introduction to the Social System of Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis)
		Giraffe can be found throughout sub-Saharan Africa, though they are limited to ever-decreasing pockets of land since the widespread encroachment of humans onto their habitat.
		Giraffes browse almost constantly to maintain their large body size: according to van der Jeugd (2000), they may spend between 20 and 50 percent of the day browsing.
		Giraffes may drink water when it is available, but during droughts, they can go for weeks without it (Dagg 1976).
	www.bio.davidson.edu /people/vecase/Behavior/Spring2004/breedlove/introduction.html (692 words)

	Cleveland Metroparks Zoo - Cleveland Metroparks Zoo - New Animals
		A giraffe calf is born with the mother standing, and undergoes a six-foot drop as its introduction to the world.
		A female Masai giraffe was born on October 26, 2005 and boosts the Zoo's growing herd of giraffes to six.
		Bridgit was born at the Zoo in 1993.
	www.clemetzoo.com /whats_new/new_animals.asp (957 words)

	Masai Giraffe
		Sienna, a 6-year-old Masai giraffe, gave birth to her second calf on Feb. 15 at the Kansas City Zoo.
		The healthy calf, born at 4:1 5 p.m., is the youngest animal, as of yet, to be introduced as part of the 150 New Animals.
		It is estimated that about 60,000 Masai giraffe live in the wild.
	www.kcmo.org /kc150.nsf/web/giraffe?opendocument (272 words)

	Jungle Photos Africa Animals mammals - giraffe
		We all recognize the giraffe as the world's tallest land animal, with their cute looks and funny way of splaying their legs to drink.
		Giraffes are popular exhibits at zoos all over the world.
		This bull giraffe was photographed in the Mara National Reserve in Kenya, among a small herd of about fifteen (note the individual in the background).
	www.junglephotos.com /africa/afanimals/mammals/giraffe.shtml (139 words)

	Adopt a Giraffes - National Zoo\| FONZ
		To a ninth-century Arabic scholar, the giraffe seemed to be a cross between a leopard and the camel; a 12th-century Chinese writer suggested a camel-ox-leopard mix.
		Giraffes are the biggest ruminant (they chew their cuds like cattle and deer) and the tallest mammal, reaching heights of as much as 19 feet and weights of 2,700 pounds.
		Giraffes have specialized valves in their necks and very elastic blood vessels that enable them to lower and raise their heads without sudden drop in blood pressure.
	nationalzoo.si.edu /Support/AdoptSpecies/AnimalInfo/Giraffe (984 words)

	Houston Zoo Announces Birth of Masai Giraffe
		“While Masai giraffes are not threatened or endangered in their native habitat, there are only 63 of them in North American zoos,” said Coleman.
		A giraffe is one of the few animals born with horns.
		A baby giraffe’s horns lie flat against the skull when it is born and pop upright during the first week of life.
	www.houstonzoo.org /index.asp?page_ID=553 (309 words)

	GIRAFFE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Giraffes live in the African Savannah, scrub, and open acacia woodlands south of the Sahara Desert or anywhere else with thorny bushes and trees.
		Giraffes were first brought to Rome in 46 B.C. During that time they were thought to be as big as a camel and spots like a leopard.
		Giraffes are nonterritorial and sociable and travel in herds of two to fifty animals.
	schoolweb.missouri.edu /ashland.k12.mo.us/2003-2004/ao (658 words)

	Africa on the Matrix: Giraffe – Symbols of Africa
		Giraffes are the tallest mammals in the world and their great height gives them access to leaves that no other ground dwellers (except elephants) can reach.
		Drinking and eating closer to the ground, however, is a more difficult matter, requiring giraffes to spread their front legs in an awkward manner that makes them vulnerable to attack.
		Giraffes spend most of the day browsing (eating leaves) and moving slowly through forested areas, using their sharp eyesight and lofty vantage point to keep track of other members of the herd.
	www.on-the-matrix.com /africa/giraffe.asp (530 words)

	Wolf Run Studio - Giraffe Notecards
		The Masai giraffe of Africa has a scattered range in the portion of the African continent south of the Sahara desert.
		Giraffes are the tallest animals in the world.
		Although their necks alone can be eight-feet long and weigh about 600 pounds, giraffes have the same number of vertebrae in their necks as humans (seven).
	www.wolfrunstudio.com /PAGES/pg_wld10.html (592 words)

	AfricaRevealed - Giraffe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Most people divide the giraffe into nine subspecies based on the number of ossicorns, the differences in the coat and association with a particular geographic region.
		The masai giraffe is found in open acacia woodlands, wooded grasslands, desert grass-bush and scrub and coastal forest.
		His pattern of the skin is paler and less jagged compared with the masai giraffe.
	www.d-jur.nl /page.jsp?className=article&articleId=425 (358 words)

	Animal Scoop - Giraffe - BillyBear4Kids.com
		Giraffes can run up to 35 mph using their hoofed feet.
		A calf (baby giraffe) is about six feet tall at birth.
		Because of their height, to reach the ground for food or water, a giraffe must either spread it's front legs...
	www.billybear4kids.com /animal/whose-toes/toes8a.html (176 words)

	Giraffe Pictures and Facts
		They are: the Nigerian giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis peralta), the Nubian giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis camelopardalis), Baringo (Rothschild's) giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi), Masai giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi), Reticulated giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata), Thornicroft's giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis thornicrofti), Kordofan giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis antiquorum), Angolan giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis angolensis), and the Southern giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis giraffa).
		Quote: "The giraffe, although from sixteen to twenty feet in height, is perfectly defenceless, and can only trust to the swiftness of its pace and the extraordinary power of vision, for its means of protection.
		A giraffe's heart is very big and very busy, pumping up to 20 gallons (75 liters) of blood every minute, and weighing up to 25 pounds (11 kilograms).
	fohn.net /giraffe-pictures-facts (363 words)

	Kenya - Masai Mara Safari Photos
		A lone Masai person was accompanying this cow that had just given birth to a calf.
		Masai people in the Masai village that we visited.
		Masai cooking pot inside a hut, cooking special food for a celebration.
	www.wainscoat.com /kenya (114 words)

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