Giraffe

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Giraffe

• By Brooks

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Physical Description

• Male giraffes can be up to 18 feet. The female
  giraffe can 13-15 feet.
• The male giraffe can be 1,765lbs-4,255 pounds.
  Female giraffes weigh up to 2,600 pounds.
• The giraffe has the longest neck in the world.

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Predators

• The giraffes predators are humans, lions and
  hyenas.
• The giraffe uses its long, long legs to protect
  itself by sleeping standing up. They use their
  legs and sharp hooves to kill the lions and
  hyenas.
• The giraffes are hunted for clothes, and
  furniture coverings, good luck bracelets and even
  shield coverings.

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Habitat

• Its very dry in the winter. (The dry season.)
  Theres a period of rain in the summer.
• The giraffe lives in Africa. Regions south of the
  Sahara Desert. Niger is the country with the most
  giraffes.
• They hang around the savannah, bush, scrub and
  open acacia woodlands. They live in semi-arid
  regions to regions to dense vegetation.

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Food and Diet

• Giraffes eat plants, acacia trees, broadleaf
  plants and Combretum trees also evergreen brush.
• They are herbivores.

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Babies

• The giraffe usually has one calf at a time. It
  takes one year and three months for a baby to be
  born.
• The baby giraffe is called a calf. At the moment
  of its birth it is six feet tall. It weighs 120
  to 150 pounds.
• Giraffe babies stay with their mothers for about
  two years. It becomes an adult when it is three
  or four years old. Then it is on its own.

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Interesting Facts

• It is the tallest animal on earth.
• It isnt a fighter but it will protect itself
  from enemies.
• It sleeps standing up. It keeps one eye open
  alternately. It needs to be able to run if any
  enemy is near.
• They can moo, hiss, roar and whistle.
• A giraffes never takes a bath. Birds called Ox
  peckers sit on the giraffe and peck at the bugs
  on the giraffe to keep them clean.