The Giraffe is the tallest among all living animals. The strange shape has made the giraffe perfectly suitable to obtain its food.
A giraffe eats only the leaves of the plants, so its height enables it to reach the leaves on trees which grow in tropical lands where there is less grass. A giraffe’s tongue is often a foot and half long which it can use skillfully to pick the smallest leaves from the thorny plants without being pricked.
It also has a long upper lip, which helps it to wrench off many leaves at a time. If the giraffe wants to drink water from the ground, it adopts a peculiar style of spreading its legs far apart, so that it can reach down easily.
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The giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) is an African even-toed ungulate mammal, the tallest of all land-living animal species, and the largest ruminant. It is covered in large, irregular patches of yellow to black fur separated by white, off-white, or dark yellowish brown background. The average mass for an adult male giraffe is 1,191 kilograms (2,630 lb) while the average mass for an adult female is 828 kilograms (1,830 lb).[3][4] It is approximately 4.3 metres (14 ft) to 5.2 metres (17 ft) tall, although the tallest male recorded stood almost 6 metres (20 ft).
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