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Giraffes have become popular attractions in modern zoos, though keeping them healthy is difficult as they require vast areas and need to eat large amounts of browse. Captive giraffes in North America and Europe appear to have a higher mortality rate than in the wild, the most common causes being poor husbandry, nutrition, and management.
To understand why giraffes fight we need to take a look at their social hierarchy. Giraffes live in stable family groups with older females helping the mothers to care for the young. A group of ...
Various species of sea turtles bury their eggs on beaches under a layer of sand that provides both protection from predators and a constant temperature for the nest. Snakes may lay eggs in communal burrows, where a large number of adults combine to keep the eggs warm. Some species coil their torsos around the eggs to provide heat for incubation.
It is not only mammals that give birth. Some reptiles, amphibians, fish and invertebrates carry their developing young inside them. Some of these are ovoviviparous, with the eggs being hatched inside the mother's body, and others are viviparous, with the embryo developing inside their body, as in the case of mammals.
There are around 45,400 Masai giraffes — an amount roughly equivalent to 67% of their population in the 1970s. Giraffes feed on leaves, stems, flowers and fruits, so human population growth and ...
The Reticulated giraffe is a herbivore feeding on leaves, shoots, and shrubs. Their up to 30 centimeter long blue tongue is used to strip the branches of acacia trees, their primary food source. [4] They spend most of their day feeding, roughly 13 hours/day, eating up to 34 kilograms of food per day. [12]
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Bigger eggs mean bigger young that have a higher survivability rate. [18] In a study of zebra finches, it was determined that those which were fed a lower quality diet laid eggs that were lighter and less nutrient-rich than those zebra finches which were fed a higher quality diet.