![]() ![]() Giraffe coats are sharp-edged or fuzzy-edged small, medium, or large or yellow to black in color. The patches on a giraffe coat can be small, medium, or large in size. The nine giraffe subspecies have various skin patterns. The pattern of the coat varies and is an aide for camouflage with the different habitats. Newborn giraffes weigh 50 to 55 kg.īoth male and female giraffes have a spotted coat. At birth, giraffe calves are 2 m tall from the ground to the shoulders. Bulls weigh up to 1,930 kg, while cows can weigh up to 1,180 kg. Female giraffes (cows) are 0.7 to 1 m shorter than bulls. Male giraffes (bulls) stand a total of 5.7 m from the ground to their horns: 3.3 m at the shoulders with a long neck of 2.4 m. Giraffa camelopardalis is the world’s tallest mammal. Plant Foods: leaves wood, bark, or stems seeds, grains, and nuts fruit flowers They choose foliage with highest nutritional value. Female giraffes are more selective when feeding. Female giraffes feed at body and knee height, feeding from the crown of lower trees or shrubs. Their fodder is from the underside of the high canopy. Male giraffes typically feed with their head and neck completely outstretched to the shoots. However, in poor-quality areas, a giraffe can survive on 7 kg of food per day. Up to 66 kg of food for one day can be consumed by an adult, male giraffe. Acacia trees have thorns but giraffe molars crush the thorns. Giraffes browse by taking the branches in their mouths and pulling away the head to tear away the leaves. Their main food is the leaves from Acacia trees. Giraffes use many tree species for browse, including: Acacia senegal, Mimosa pudica, Combretum micranthum, and Prunus armeniaca. Giraffa camelopardalis have long tongues, narrow muzzles, and flexible upper lips to help obtain leaves from the tall trees they use for browsing. Chewing cud while traveling helps to maximize their feeding opportunities. Giraffes are ruminants and have a four-chambered stomach. In areas where the savanna floor is salty or full of minerals, they eat soil as well. ![]() Giraffes feed on leaves, flowers, seed pods, and fruits. Perception Channels: visual tactile acoustic chemical Individuals within a herd may scatter widely across the grassland in search of good food or drink, and only cluster together at good food trees or if threatened.Ĭommunication Channels: visual tactile acoustic chemical ![]() The acute eyesight of giraffes can spot predators at a distance so they can prepare to defend themselves by kicking. Their height allows giraffes a continual visual contact while at great distances from their herd. Giraffe vision relies mainly on their height. While courting an estrous cow, male giraffes may cough raucously. The calves return their mother’s calls by bleating or mewing. Also, cows search for their lost young by making bellowing calls. Mother giraffes can whistle to their young calves. When alarmed, a giraffe grunts or snorts to warn neighboring giraffes of the danger. Some other communication sounds for giraffes are moaning, snoring, hissing, and flutelike sounds. They do, at times, vocalize to one another by grunts or whistle-like cries. Giraffes communicate with one another by infrasonic sound. Giraffa camelopardalis are rarely heard and are usually considered silent mammals.
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