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brimming with lions, rhinos, giraffes, cheetahs, and other wildlife. While the park is secured by an electric fence on three sides oe those that border the city oe the open end allows wildlife to spill out into Kintengela,
Take giraffes, for instance. Males, called bulls, make casual visits to various groups over time in search of a cow who might mate with him.
While giraffes'social decisions are ruled by urine, hippos appear to rely on dung. The function and purpose of dung-showering is still only partially understood, according to biologist Richard Despard Estes.
recent reports suggest that giraffes and western scrub jays may mourn as well, each with their own customs.
Life-sized models of giraffes, elephants, lions, crocodiles, zebras, bison and other animals greet visitors as they arrive in the main hold.
As with most giraffes, they never really know what their role in life is...If you can unravel a lime with your tongue,
like a baby giraffe finding its legs, then suddenly, confidently circles the field#s if guided by an invisible hand.
Kissing a giraffe is intimidating, even for blind people!..Hose heads rule!..Even with the new fence between the U s. and Mexico, people can still just drive across the border!..
#Elephants Vanish in Congo Reserve The Okapi Faunal Reserve was thought to be a safe haven for forest elephants in the otherwise conflict-stricken eastern region of the Democratic Republic of congo.
In the last 15 years 75 percent of the Okapi population or 5100 animals have been killed
because the Okapi Faunal Reserve a UNESCO World Heritage Site covering more than 5000 square miles (14000 square km) is considered the best protected conservation area in the Democratic Republic of congo.
#Fun Facts About Giraffes Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Cetartiodactyla Family: Giraffidae Genus:
Giraffa Species: Giraffa camelopardalis Subspecies: G. camelopardalisperalta (West african Giraffe Nigerien Giraffe) G. camelopardalisrothschildi (Ugandan Giraffe Rothschild's Giraffe) G. camelopardalisreticulate (Reticulated Giraffe) G. camelopardalis camelopardalis (Nubian
Giraffe) G. camelopardalis tippelskirchi (Masai Giraffe) G. camelopardalis angolensis (Angolan Giraffe) G. camelopardalis giraffa There's still confusion among experts about how many giraffe species
and subspecies really exist. Basic giraffe facts: Giraffes are the tallest animals in the world.
Males can grow up to 18 feet (5. 5 meters) tall females can reach 14 feet (4. 3 m) tall
and their babies called calves are born around 6 feet (1. 8 m) tall. Calves can grow up to an inch a day.
Like a human fingerprint each giraffe's coat is unique. Some subspecies have patterns that look like oak leaves
while others have shaped square patterns that make the giraffe look like it's covered by a net.
Their coat colors vary from white to light tan to nearly black depending on what they eat
and where they live. Some experts think that the patterns are for camouflage. In the wild giraffes will sleep only about 20 minutes a day
and usually not more than five minutes at a time as they need to stay alert to watch for predators.
All giraffes have covered two hair horns called ossicones. Male giraffes use their horns to playfully fight with one another.
They also spar by swinging their heads at one another and entwining their necks which is called necking.
Animals'Dazzling Headgear Like camels giraffes can go for a long time without drinking water because their diet especially acacia leaves their favorite food contains a lot of water.
To help protect themselves giraffes usually go to watering holes together and take turns watching for predators. Giraffes are herbivores
and they eat leaves buds and branches from mimosa and acacia trees. Their height helps them reach food well above where other animals can reach.
A giraffe may eat more than 75 pounds (34 kilograms) of food each day. Because they get just a few leaves in every bite they spend most of their day eating Acacia trees have long thorns that deter most animals but not giraffes.
Their 18-inch (46-centimeter) tongues can reach around the thorns and their thick sticky saliva coats any thorns they might swallow.
The dark blue-gray color of a giraffe's tongue helps protect it from sunburn while the giraffe is reaching for tree leaves.
Giraffes are ruminants like cows and their stomachs have four compartments that digest the leaves they eat.
After a giraffe swallows a mouthful of leaves once a ball of already-chewed leaves
or cud will make its way back up the throat for more grinding. Giraffes can breed anytime throughout the year.
A male will sort of flirt with a female in heat sometimes feeding beside her and tangling necks with her.
When a giraffe calf is born it drops to the ground head first from about 6 feet (1. 8 meters) high.
After they're a few weeks old calves join a group of young giraffes called a crã che.
Giraffes can live up to 25 years in the wild and longer in captivity. Where giraffes live:
Giraffes used to live throughout arid and dry-savanna zones of Sub-saharan africa wherever there were trees.
Now their range has shrunk due to habitat loss. Most giraffes live in wooded savannas open woodlands and riparian forests in east Africa and the northern parts of southern Africa where they're protected by national parks. West african Giraffes only survive in the wild and the only known population lives in southwestern Niger.
The only remaining wild population of Ugandan Giraffes is in Murchison Falls National park Uganda. They've also been reintroduced to six sites in Kenya and one other site in Uganda.
Conservation status: Least Concern to Endangered Overall the species is of least concern but the subspecies listed above the West african Giraffe
and the Ugandan Giraffe are endangered both. Giraffes are widespread throughout Africa and their population totals more than 100000.
Experts believe their numbers are shrinking due to habitat loss and poaching so the species may soon be listed as threatened.
The West african Giraffe is endangered. There are currently fewer than 200 individuals in this subspecies though experts think they're on the rise thanks to conservation programs.
The Ugandan Giraffe is endangered also. There are fewer than 2500 individuals in this subspecies and experts are worried that this number is shrinking.
Odd facts: Giraffes look a little like a cross between a camel and a leopard:
They have a small hump on their back and a spotted coat. People used to call the giraffe a camel-leopard
and that's how the giraffe got its species name camelopardalis. A giraffe's foot is 12 inches (30 centimeters) across about the size of a dinner plate.
A giraffe's neck is 6 feet (1. 8 m) long and weighs about 600 pounds (272 kg).
A giraffe's back legs look shorter than its front legs but they're really about the same length 6 feet (1. 8 m). A giraffe's heart is 2 feet (0. 6 meters) long
and weighs about 25 pounds (11 kg). For a long time people thought giraffes were mute but they actually communicate by emitting moans
or low notes that humans can't hear. They can also whistle hiss moo and roar.
Besides humans giraffes'only predators are lions and crocodiles. Giraffes can defend themselves with a deadly kick
when they need to. Many male giraffes check whether a female's in heat by nudging her to make her pee.
They can usually tell by smell but some males will even taste the urine to see
if she's ready to mate. Giraffes have the same number of vertebrae in their necks as we do seven.
Each one can be over 10 inches (25.4 cm) long. Giraffes run by moving their front and back legs on one side forward together.
Their funny gait makes them pretty fast: The record running speed of a giraffe is 34.7 mph (56 kph.
Other resources: IUCN Red List: Giraffe Smithsonian National Zoo Fact Sheet: Giraffe PBS Nature Critter Guide:
Giraffe San diego Zoo: Giraffes National geographic Giraffe Fact r
#Fun Facts About Hippos Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Cetartiodactyla Family: Hippopotamidae Genus:
Hippopotamus Species: Hippopotamus amphibius Basic hippopotamus facts: Hippos are the third largest land mammal species On earth after elephants and white rhinos.
Weighing in at around 7900 pounds (3600 kilograms) adult hippos measure about 15 feet (4. 6 meters) long and 5 feet (1. 5 m) tall.
Video: Hippo Weighed on Giant Scale Their skin color varies from brown to grayish purple and they're almost completely hairless.
To protect their bare skin hippos produce a special kind of sweat that's red and acts as sunscreen insect repellent and antibiotic salve all in one.
This hulk of an animal wallows by day and grazes by night. During the day they rest play and sometimes fight in lakes rivers and swamps.
Male leopards have been known to kill small giraffes and drag the carcasses into trees. The leopard's name comes from the Greek word leopardus a combination of leon (lion) and pardus (panther.
The word gerenuk appropriately means giraffe-necked in the Somali language. These long-necked creatures which are native to eastern Africa can weigh between 60 to 100 pounds (27 to 45 kilograms) and stand about 3. 5 feet (1 meter) tall on four legs.
Giraffes are the tallest animals in the world. Males can grow up to 18 feet (5. 5 m) tall
but you might have spotted a giraffe or an elephant taking a drink at the bank of the river.
Today Egypt's elephants and giraffes are extinct. So are its cheetahs and aurochs and wildebeests.
and overhunting might have driven the decline of large herbivores such as elephants giraffes and native camels
Browsing animals, such as giraffes and antelopes, have different ratios of carbon isotopes to grazers because their food shrubs and trees versus grasses carries out different types of photosynthesis. The team characterized the humans'isotope ratios by taking advantage of a fluke of history,
whereby a liver changes into a lung or a dog into a giraffe. I don't want waffle such as enzymes do this or that or âÂ#Âoewe believeã¢Â# fairy stories.
Your liver to lung and dog to giraffe are bad examples as nobody is saying those transitions did
The gerenuk is called also the long-necked giraffe though it is not closely related to the giraffe.
In fact it's the only member of its genus so it's not that closely related to any other species
The gerenuk's identification with the giraffe comes from both its long neck and its feeding habits.
Here lions leopards elephants hippos and giraffes wander free. Rivers of wildebeests zebra and Thompson's gazelles--more than 2 million all told--cross the landscape in one of the largest animal migrations on the planet.
Recent surveys from Democratic Republic of congo showed a major decline of elephants in the Okapi Faunal Reserve considered the last stronghold for elephants in the region.
The rest was horse impala hartebeest wildebeest waterbok eland gemsbok duiker giraffe kangaroo lamb pork or beef.
#Democratic Republic of congos best run reserve is hemorrhaging elephantsthe Democratic Republic of congo's (DRC) largest remaining forest elephant population located in the Okapi Faunal Reserve (OFR) has declined by 37 percent in the last five years
Additional results from recent surveys show that other wildlife in the reserve fared much better including the highly important eastern chimpanzee population (approximately 6000 individuals) okapi and duikers (small forest antelopes) with almost no change in their estimated
and even delicacies including the butchered leg joint of a giraffe. That the bone represents the height of exotic food is underscored by the fact that this is thought to be the only giraffe bone ever recorded from an archaeological excavation in Roman Italy says Ellis. How part of the animal butchered came to be a kitchen scrap in a seemingly standard Pompeian restaurant not only speaks to long-distance trade in exotic
and wild animals but also something of the richness variety and range of a non-elite diet.
they re calling giraffes camels and camels giraffes. You can t blame them for that.
they learn things like the giraffe has the same number of vertebrae as a human being.
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