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Despite her rare neck deformity, Gemina reached an old age for a giraffe. She outlived the average giraffe by almost six years. [2] In December 2007 and January 2008, Gemina stopped eating and her health began to deteriorate due to old age. [2] She was reluctantly euthanized by her keepers at the Santa Barbara Zoo on January 9, 2008. [2] [3]
Oklahoma chiropractor Joren Whitley saw Gerry the giraffe on Feb. 16 and posted a video of the session on April 16. The video now has over 682,000 views.
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).
One curious creature got a little too close for comfort with a reporter doing a live report in the middle of a zoo.
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A giraffe rests by lying with its body on top of its folded legs. [33]: 329 To lie down, the animal kneels on its front legs and then lowers the rest of its body. To get back up, it first gets on its front knees and positions its backside on top of its hindlegs. It then pulls the backside upwards, and the front legs stand straight up again.
So, before Wednesday night, right up until the moment of the Giraffe’s unmasking, I had stuck my own neck out, so to speak, and had enthusiastically and emphatically insisted that the Giraffe ...
The Masai giraffe (Giraffa tippelskirchi [2]), also spelled Maasai giraffe, and sometimes called the Kilimanjaro giraffe, is a species or subspecies of giraffe. It is native to East Africa. The Masai giraffe can be found in central and southern Kenya and in Tanzania. It has distinctive jagged, irregular leaf-like blotches that extend from the ...