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a six-foot neck holding only seven bones, same as you.
means A long-necked African mammal with a spotted coat and stilt-like legs, the tallest living land animal.
from From the Arabic 'zarafah,' the name passed into Italian as 'giraffa' and reached English by the 16th century. The Arabic itself may trace back to an African source. Earlier Europeans, working from older texts, sometimes called the animal 'camelopard' — a creature imagined as part camel, part leopard — before the simpler 'giraffe' won out.
- neck count
- Seven vertebrae, identical to humans
- blood pressure
- Double ours, to pump uphill to brain
- sleep
- Survives on 30 minutes a day
- tongue
- Black, prehensile, nearly two feet long
- combat
- Males neck-swing skulls like wrecking balls
april the giraffe — viral giraffe at animal adventure park who gave birth on live stream in 2017 watched by 232k people
melman — animated giraffe character in madagascar films, obsessive-compulsive hypochondriac
long meg — famous giraffe at chester zoo in 1970s, tallest on record at 5.88 meters