What are giraffes? Where do they live? How do they survive?
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STATUS:  \nVulnerable. \nDESCRIPTION:  \nGiraffes are one of the world's tallest mammals. They are well known for their long necks, long legs, and spotted patterns. Giraffes have small "horns" or knobs on top of their heads that grow to be about five inches long. These knobs are used to protect the head in fights. \n\nSIZE:  \nMale giraffes are larger than females. Males weigh between 2,400 and 3,000 pounds and stand up to 19 feet tall! Female giraffes weigh between 1,600 and 2,600 pounds and grow to be 16 feet tall. \n\nPOPULATION:  \nGiraffe populations are relatively stable. \n\nLIFESPAN:  \nHealthy giraffes live about 25 years in the wild. \n\nRANGE:  \nGiraffes can be found in central, eastern and southern Africa. \n\nHABITAT:  \nGiraffes live in the savannas of Africa, where they roam freely among the tall trees, arid land, dense forests and open plains. \n\nFOOD:  \nTheir long necks help giraffes eat leaves from tall trees, typically acacia trees. If they need to, giraffes can go for several days without water. Instead of drinking, giraffes stay hydrated by the moisture from leaves. \n\nBEHAVIOR:  \nGiraffes are non-territorial, social animals. They travel in large herds that are not organized in any way. Herds may consist of any combination of sexes or ages. \n\nOFFSPRING:  \nFemale giraffes typically give birth to one calf after a fifteen-month gestation period. During the first week of its life, the mother carefully guards her calf. Young giraffes are very vulnerable and cannot defend themselves. While mothers feed, the young are kept in small nursery groups. \n\nTHREATS:  \nGiraffes are hunted for their meat, coat and tails. The tail is prized for good luck bracelets, fly whisks and string for sewing beads. The coat is used for shield coverings. Habitat destruction and fragmentation are also threats to giraffe populations. \n\nPROTECTION:  \nNo current protective laws.
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It's actually a very interesting question.  I think everything about evolution is interesting.  Anyway, according to what I learned in my evolutionary genetic class, research has been done to show that giraffes' long necks were evolved not because of food gathering but for sexual selection.\n\nResearch showed that giraffes usually do not feed on the highest leaves on the trees, but quite a bit lower than that.  In fact, a male giraffe used his neck to fight with another male giraffe for a female giraffe's attention.  Hence, whoever has a stronger neck will more likely to win and as a result has a better chance to reproduce and has more offspring of his own.  The reason why giraffe uses neck to fight... I think nobody knows.\n\nSome people agree with this... some people don't.  So ...probably more research need to be done and maybe we won't be able to figure it out after all. \n\nfun question :-)
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in the case of giraffes and okapi, they have very long, nearly prehensile tongues used to strip leaves and branches from trees.  the dark colour is due to higher levels of melanin in the tongues.  granules of melanin in the integument of the tongue help to strengthen and protect the tongue from mechanical injury to some degree, but their primary 'purpose' is to protect the tongue from sunburn.\n\nas you can imagine, a giraffe's tongue gets quite a bit of exposure to harsh African sunshine.  now imagine getting a sunburn on your tongue.  ouch.\n\nin the case of chows, the colour may have been bred into the dogs for some reason (i.e. aesthetics) by the breeders, or more likely, the genes for that colour were linked to another trait that the breeders desired.\n\ni'm not aware of bears having black tongues.  which species is that?
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There are a number of misconceptions about giraffe. One is that they cannot make any sound. Although generally quiet, they have been heard to grunt, snort and bleat.
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They are called Zambezi Sharks and they swim in the Zambezi river in Africa. I think they are really Bull Sharks that can swim in salt and fresh water.\n\nI dont know if i spelt Zambezi correctly.
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Giant pandas are an endangered species, threatened by continued habitat loss and by a very low birthrate, both in the wild and in captivity. About 1,600 are believed to survive in the wild. Poaching is uncommon; killing a panda was punishable in China by death until a 1997 law changed the penalty to 20 years imprisonment.
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as far as plants are concerned they have a storage area in their cell known as VACUOLES within which the food is stored and used when required.\n\nand for animals there r only few aninmals who really store the  food. straight forward e.g are of a camel, bulls having hump at their back to store the food for future use
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Geckos are small to moderately large lizards belonging to the family Gekkonidae which are found in warm climates throughout the world. Geckos are unique among lizards in their vocalizations, making chirping sounds in social interactions with other geckos. Geckos are unusual in other respects as well. Most geckos have no eyelids and instead have a transparent membrane which they lick to clean.\n\nLizards are reptiles of the order Squamata, which they share with the snakes (Ophidians). They are usually four-legged, with external ear openings and movable eyelids. Species range in adult length from a few centimeters (some Caribbean geckos) to nearly three meters (Komodo dragons).\n\nIguanas are larger than your average lizard. Several species of Iguanas are common as pets, especially the Green Iguana in the United States and Canada, which can easily grow to six feet long, even in captivity. When treated well they can be docile, affectionate, litterbox trainable, and even walked on a leash. Such pets are either crèche-raised, or harvested from the wild in Mexico. The average life span of a well taken care of pet iguana is usually 20 years.
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The giraffe is the classical example used everywhere to emphasize the constant nº of cervical vertebrae in mammals (seven), which has very few exceptions.\nHowever, a paper published in 2000 in the Journal of Zoology claims that giraffes have an additional neck vertebra between cervical 2 and 6, and the last cervical vertebra (C7) bears the first ribs. This would imply that the adaptive changes that lead to neck elongation had deeper consequences.\nI don't know if the author, N. Solounias, or other researchers have made further advancements with respect to this issue.\n-----------------------\nAddenda: the hypothesis that the fixed nº of vertebrae could be a developmental constraint has been explored in a 1999 paper.\nhttp://wwworm.biology.uh.edu/evodevo/lecture11/galis99.pdf
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A blue whale can be 98 feet long.  I have not been able to find out how tall it can be.  It lives in the ocean. \n\nA giraffe can be 16 to 19 feet tall and is the tallest of the land living mammals.\n\nThe quiz must have been looking for land living mammals is all I can guess.
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In the wild, lions live on the savanahs of Africa- a type of grassy plains. Sometimes they will climb trees to look for prey (food). Lions don't live in dens or caves, really. They just sleep out on the open plains.\n\nThe savanah is a good place for lions to live because the color of the dry grasses match the color of the lions' fur- good camoflage for when they are hunting for food, like antelope or wildebeast.\n\nThey are at the top of the food chain, so they don't really need a lot of protection. The only time they seek actual shelter is in bad weather- the pride will look for a place to get out of the rain- a rock overhang or something similar
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There are penguins in Africa, which belong to genus Spheniscus. However, Antarctic species would suffer from excess heating (they have very insulated bodies) and probably die. \nThe African jackass penguin (Spheniscus demersus) is a small species. In fact, all continental penguins that live in South America, Australia, and even the Galapagos islands are small (smaller size helps to better dissipate excess heat). \nCheck penguin species by geographical area here:\nhttp://www.penguins.cl/penguins-region.htm
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Panda bears orginated in China. They are not a cross breed of any other animals. The Giant Panda is a black-and-white with cat like feet. It is a mammal usually classified in the bear family, They are native to central and southern China. The Panda's main food is bamboo, but they may eat other foods such as honey. Easily recognizable through its large, distinctive black patches on the eyes, ears and on its body, the Giant Panda is one of the most endangered animals in the world: an estimated 1,600 pandas live in the wild and some 160 live in captivity.
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haha ok i have a couple questions...\n1) how old are you?\n2) what made you think of htis question?\n3) dont you have anything better to do lol?\n\nbut thats a tough question, i would say the octopus - stronger, and with the sucker/squeegie things, they could like wrap their arms around the giraffe and take it down...hope that helps!!
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A food chain shows how each living thing gets its food. Some animals eat plants and some animals eat other animals. For example, a simple food chain links the trees & shrubs, the giraffes (that eat trees & shrubs), and the lions (that eat the giraffes). Each link in this chain is food for the next link. A food chain always starts with plant life and ends with an animal.\n\n\nPlants are called producers because they are able to use light energy from the Sun to produce food (sugar) from carbon dioxide and water.\n\nAnimals cannot make their own food so they must eat plants and/or other animals. They are called consumers. There are three groups of consumers.\n\nAnimals that eat ONLY PLANTS are called herbivores.\n\nAnimals that eat OTHER ANIMALS are called carnivores.\n\nAnimals and people who eat BOTH animals and plants are called omnivores.\n\n\nThen there are decomposers (bacteria and fungi) which feed on decaying matter. \n\nThese decomposers speed up the decaying process that releases mineral salts back into the food chain for absorption by plants as nutrients. \nDo you know why there are more herbivores than carnivores? In a food chain, energy is passed from one link to another. When a herbivore eats, only a fraction of the energy (that it gets from the plant food) becomes new body mass; the rest of the energy is lost as waste or used up (by the herbivore as it moves). Likewise, when a carnivore eats another animal, only a portion of the energy from the animal food is stored in its tissues. In other words, organisms along a food chain pass on much less energy (in the form of body mass) than they receive.\n\nBecause of the large amount of energy that is lost at each link ... \nThe further along the food chain you go, the less food (and hence energy) remains available\n\nThe energy pyramid shows many trees & shrubs providing food and energy to giraffes. Note that as we go up, there are fewer giraffes than trees & shrubs and even fewer lions than giraffes. In other words, a large mass of living things at the base is required to support a few at the top.\nMost food chains have no more than four or five links.\n\nThere cannot be too many links in a single food chain because the animals at the end of the chain would not get enough food (and hence energy) to stay alive.\n\nMost animals are part of more than one food chain and eat more than one kind of food in order to meet their food and energy requirements. These interconnected food chains form a food web.
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Many survive the same way reptiles and amphibians do. They hibernate by digging into the mud and burying themselves within. Others are capable of surviving in low-temperature water. The rest migrate like birds.
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wait.im confused..i thought lions live in the savanna?