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The Amazing Giraffes in the Wild. Andres. Table Of Contents. Habitat. Food and Water. Interesting Facts. Daily Behaviors. Family Structures. Bibliography. Habitat. tall grassy parts dry lands Forest, or grasslands Big savannas Live in Tanzania, Kenya, Angola, Zaire, and Nigeria.
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Table Of Contents Habitat Food and Water Interesting Facts Daily Behaviors Family Structures Bibliography
Habitat • tall grassy parts • dry lands • Forest, or grasslands • Big savannas • Live in Tanzania, Kenya, Angola, Zaire, and Nigeria home
Food and Water • Eat every single day • Rip off leaves to eat them • Bend there legs to drink from pond • Eat leaves, twigs, and fruit from trees and bushes • Can eat 75 pounds of leaves a day • Can drink water from wet leaves home
Daily Behavior • Full grown at age 5 • Calves live with family until 1 • Walk in herds • 10 giraffes in a herd • Don’t sleep very much • Spend most of time eating • Run 35 miles from lions, Leopards, and Hyenas • Have babysitters home
Family Structures • Give birth standing up • Full grown at age 5 • 1 baby a year • A day after baby is born it can run • Have a herd to stay safe • In herd babysitters • 50 giraffes in herd home
Interesting Facts • Have one color when born • When growing up have different spots • Tongue is longer than arm • Run 35 miles an hour • Leg as long 6 feet and 1.8 meters • A giraffes neck has 7 bones home
Bibliography Ipcizade Catherine . Giraffes. Mankato, Minnesota; capstone press, 2008 Goldish, Meish. Giraffes and other hoofed mammals Chicago; world book inc, 2003 home