Some interesting facts about giraffes
This article is about the giraffes
Latin Name: Giraffa camelopardalis
How much does a Giraffe weigh?
The males reach about 1400kg and the females about 1200kg.
How fast can a giraffe run?
+- 55km/hour.
How much does a giraffe eat in a day?
A giraffe will eat between 30 and 40kg of food in one day. They are browsers taking preference to the Acacia trees. They have very long tongues (46cm), which they use to strip leaves off between all the thorns on the Acacias. If a thorn is taken in they simply spit it out.
An amazing adaptation that giraffe have is that they don’t have any blood vessels in their gums, so they won’t bleed when pierced by a thorn. Their tongues get very rough and damaged by thorns over a period of time, so they are capable of shedding the outer layers of the tongue, leaving it soft and smooth once again.
