SAM: Ooh! Those leaves look so yummy! Ooh… I wish I had a longer neck so I could reach them! GRANDDAD: Long, long ago, that's exactly what the giraffe said. SAM: Did they? GRANDDAD: Oh ...
The giraffe has an incredibly long neck and legs, high shoulders and a sloping back. The tapering head has 2-5 short horns. A giraffe's horns are covered with skin and are biggest on the males. They ...
Witnessing this gawky effort to obtain the most basic sustenance makes one wonder if the right question to ask isn’t why the giraffe has such a long neck, but rather, why is it so short relative ...
The exercise of stretching up to the leaves altered the neck and legs, and their offspring inherited these acquired characteristics. According to Darwin's theory, giraffes that happened to have ...
A later theory usurped Darwin and Lamarck's, suggesting that male giraffes ... fell short. "What we found was pretty ...
It was a very tall order — but an Oklahoma chiropractor gave a neck adjustment to a 16-foot male giraffe, The Washington Post reports, and he displayed the whole procedure in a series of cuddly ...
Known as “necking” the giraffes use their long and powerful necks to attack, delivering hard blows with each hit. As you watch the video, you can hear the loud whacks coming from the neck ...
Another theory suggests that giraffes evolved long necks to avoid competition for food ... they only sleep about 4.6 hours per day, often in short naps while standing. In fact, adult giraffes ...