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Giraffe necks are so long they can’t reach the ground. To get a sip of water from a water hole, a giraffe will splay its legs in an awkward-looking manner. The one-way valves in their veins ...
A polesaw (also pole saw or giraffe saw) is a saw attached to a pole or long handle that is used for pruning tree branches that are beyond arm's reach. [1] [2] A polesaw allows its user to cut high branches without the use of a ladder. [3] Polesaws can be manual or motorized.
Giraffe populations are in trouble — and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday proposed listing three subspecies of the tall animals as endangered and two species as threatened under ...
The giraffe's head and neck are held up by large muscles and a nuchal ligament, which are anchored by long thoracic vertebrae spines, giving them a hump. [17] [62] [35] Adult male reticulated giraffe feeding high on an acacia, in Kenya. The giraffe's neck vertebrae have ball and socket joints.
The Hunters is a 1957 ethnographic film that documents the efforts of four !Kung men (also known as Ju/'hoansi or Bushmen) to hunt a giraffe in the Kalahari Desert of Namibia. The footage was shot by John Marshall during a Smithsonian - Harvard Peabody sponsored expedition in 1952–53. [ 2 ]
Dik-diks are only about a foot and a half tall when fully grown, so the fact that Twiggy the giraffe even took notice of, let alone cared for such a small creature is a truly remarkable feat.
A syrphid fly using its proboscis to reach the nectar of a flower. A proboscis (/ p r oʊ ˈ b ɒ s ɪ s,-k ɪ s /) is an elongated appendage from the head of an animal, either a vertebrate or an invertebrate.
The Giraffidae are a family of ruminant artiodactyl mammals that share a recent common ancestor with deer and bovids.This family, once a diverse group spread throughout Eurasia and Africa, presently comprises only two extant genera, the giraffe (between one and eight, usually four, species of Giraffa, depending on taxonomic interpretation) and the okapi (the only known species of Okapia).