Giraffe

The word giraffe comes from the Arabic zarafa, which has been credited with almost as many roots as the giraffe has spots. Each giraffe’s spots are different. Some spots are bog and some are small. Some are dark brown and some are light brown.

Giraffe, the tallest living animals found in the dry savanna and open woodland areas of Africa, south of the Sahara.

When Europeans first saw the giraffe, in the fifteenth century, they were certain that the animal was a biological anomaly.

There is only one species of giraffe – Giraffa camelopardalis. Within that species there are nine different types of giraffe.

The legs of a full-grown giraffe are taller than the average person about six feet. To walk, they lift both left legs, and then both right.

Neck elongated, with a short, erect mane, shoulders much higher than croup but limbs of nearly equal length. Despite their long necks, giraffe have no more than the usual seven neck vertebrae found in most other mammals.

Giraffes have been so popular zoo attractions since the first was brought to Paris in the early 1800s.

Giraffe