Build your Giraffee Knowledge!

Meme and I headed to the zoo in DSM on Saturday on a "free" pass from work!
So we toted our camera's along to give them a zoo workout!
The weather was perfect!!!

Now to test your Giraffe knowledge!

Did you know???

That both male and female giraffes have horns?
Male horns tend to be bald and the females tend to have little tuffs of hair on them.

This is obviously a female, with her little "tuffs".

Love her facial expression!

A giraffe can eat up to 140 pounds of leaves and twigs a day!!
No wonder all the bark was COVERED!!!
They have an 18 inch tongue (apparently rivaling most labs I know) and it's PURPLE!!

An unexpected danger to giraffes in captivity is that, as they are typically the tallest objects in a zoo, giraffes are at increased risk of being struck by lightening. In the wild, this hazard is reduced by the presence of trees; as well, the giraffe's natural habitat range has an extremely low occurrence of lightning.

So when lightening is present it's always good to be the "short" one on the block! G


My favorite picture of the day was when the 3 giraffes gathered around their flake of hay. Don't worry, they have scheduled feeding times where the public (for a fee of course) can feed them.