Giraffes

Speciality Senses:excellent hearing & eyesight

Herbivore; eats buds and leaves. Their favorite are acacia buds.Eat very regularly.

GiraffesGiraffa camelopardalis

Physical Description:Height (14ft - 19ft)Weight (1,750lbs - 2,800lbs)color and pattern varies

Status & Threatsleast concern to endangered-main threats are poaching and habitat loss

terrestrial-arid & dry-wooded savannaopen woodlandriparian forest

social-non-territorial-migratory

Diet / Feeding

Behavior:

Habitat:

most of africa

Range:

-world's tallest mammal-no two giraffe patterns are the samegiraffe's heart are two feet long and weigh 25lbs-giraffes have the same number of vertebraes as humans, seven-giraffe patterns vary through regions of Africa

Interestng Facts:

communicate through moans & low notes

Communication:

- humans- lions -crocodiles

Predators: