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Giraffe

Educational resources on Giraffe

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Academic web links for the Giraffe.


ADW: Giraffa camelopardalis: Information
Giraffe coats are sharp-edged or fuzzy-edged; small, medium, or large; or yellow to black in color. The skin pattern for an individual giraffe is constant throughout the giraffe
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Giraffa_camelopardalis.html

Giraffe - National Zoo| FONZ
The world's tallest animal uses its reach to get a neck up on other browsing animals. Physical Description: Giraffes' long limbs, necks, and tongues enable them to reach
nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/AfricanSavanna/fact-giraffe.cfm

Giraffe
Common Name: Giraffe Classification: Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Family: Giraffidae Genus: Giraffa Species: cameolopardalis
www.ben.edu/museum/giraffe.asp

Factual information
Adult Male Height: 15 - 18 feet (4.6 - 5.5m). The tallest giraffe measured stood 19ft. 3 in. (5.88 m) tall!
www.bio.davidson.edu/people/vecase/Behavior/Spring2002/Kawwass/giraffe.htm

Edyta's Research Paper: Evolution of the Giraffe Neck
Evolution of the Giraffe Neck Via Sexual Selection. Tallest of the mammals is the giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) whose extremely long neck is a classic example of an
www1.pacific.edu/~e-buhals/GIRAFFE2.htm

Giraffes of Africa
HGA | ASGI99 Index. Giraffes of Africa Kristen Schultz Grade 1 Spring 1999. Purpose: The giraffe is the tallest mammal on earth. Giraffes are also among the few mammals that can't
www.hawaii.edu/hga/ASGI99/kristen.html

Introduction to the Social System of Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis)
Introduction. Image taken with permission from http://randm2.tripod.com/index.html. The giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) is the world's tallest land animal, and one of the largest.
www.bio.davidson.edu/people/vecase/Behavior/Spring2004/breedlove/introduction.html

Giraffe
If you look closely at this picture for a few seconds, you will begin to see a giraffe
www.des.emory.edu/mfp/giraffe.html

The Giraffe's Long Neck.
The Giraffe's Long Neck. I am very suspicious of the giraffe's long neck. Well, more to the point, I am suspicious of our explanations of how it got that way.
www.wfu.edu/~brehme/evolution.htm

Giraffe on Fire
A poetic collage of voices, genres, and time-spaces. A display of power over language and rhythm. A postmodern performance of naked figures hanging in the nebulae of a militarized
www.uapress.arizona.edu/BOOKS/bid1365.htm







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