How do Giraffes get their spots?
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it is genetic.  during embryonic stages the skin pigments kinda move around and the patterns are all different, just like dogs and cats.  it is usually on multiple genes and varies a bit.  our fingerprints do a similar thing.  in the womb we move around and actually make our fingerprints smear to their current way.
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1.  Open the door.  Put the elephant in the fridge.  Close the door.\n\n2.  Open the door.  Take the elephant out of the fridge.  Put the giraffe into the fridge.  Close the door.\n\n3.  The giraffe is not there, because he's in the fridge.\n\n4.  You go during the animal-kingdom meeting, because all the animals except the giraffe will be at the meeting and it will be safe to cross the river.
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i know!\n -first, you open the door and put the elephant in. \n -second, you open the door and pull out the elephant and put the giraffe in and close the door. \n -third: the giraffe doesnt go cuz he is in the fridge\n -fourth: you jump in and swim across cuz all the crocodiles are at the meeting!!!
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come on peace that is not the answer.\nGiraffe are the tallest animals in the world. Males can reach as high as 6 meters (19 feet) tall and female giraffe can measure up to5 meters -17 feet) tall. Their neck accounts for the added height and is by itself approximately 2.4 meters (8 feet) in length and can weigh almost 227 kilograms (500 pounds). \n\nFUNNY THIGS :\ntallest man in the world reaches his belley.\nhe needs telescope to see his leg.\nand most of all, \ndamm...he is taller than me.\ni cant belive it.
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Okapi - they are related to the giraffe actually!  (they have those skin covered horns in males, and an extendable tongue, as well as similar teeth).
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Yes and yes. They are responding to the motion of the cape, not the color.\nTests for this sort of thing are pretty cool and pretty cruel. They train a bull to get food from a square red box. The bull associates food and the square red box. Then they put two boxes out there - a square red box with food, and a square green box with a nasty surprise (frequently noise or a squirt of water that the bull hates) - and see if the bull can find the food more often than random chance would account for.\nAnd they can't.
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take out the giraffe and stuff him in...:-)
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Monkey likes to look!
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Well, my answer is not as funny as the one above but...\n\nNO, They have large patches between their legs and on their bellies that are not striped
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Giraffes live in the savannas of Africa, where they roam freely among the tall trees, arid land, dense forests and open plains.\n\nSuch weather and forest conditions are not found in India, so giraffes are NOT found in India.
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giraffe , because  he was in refrigerator
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Especially girl giraffes!
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When the teacher finds 15 out of 100 tagged giraffes, it indicates that 15% of the population have been tagged. Therefore, to find the whole population, divide the number of tagged giraffes by the proportion of tagged giraffes (divide 60 by 15%). The answer is 400 giraffes.
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Ostriches do not stick their heads in the ground, that's a myth.\n\nRead this for more information:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrich#Behavior\n\nIn popular mythology, the ostrich is famous for hiding its head in the sand at the first sign of danger. The Roman writer Pliny the Elder is noted for his descriptions of the ostrich in his Naturalis Historia, where he describes the ostrich and the fact that it hides its head in a bush. There have been no recorded observations of this behavior. A common counter-argument is that a species that displayed this behavior would not likely survive very long. The myth may have resulted from the fact that, from a distance, when ostriches feed they appear to be burying their head in the sand because they deliberately swallow sand and pebbles to help grind up their food. Burying their heads in sand will in fact suffocate the ostrich. When lying down and hiding from predators, the birds are known to lay their head and neck flat on the ground, making them appear as a mound of earth from a distance. This even works for the males, as they hold wings and tail low, the heat haze of the hot, dry air that often occurs in their habitat aiding to make them appear as a nondescript dark lump. When threatened, ostriches run away, but they can also seriously injure with kicks from their powerful legs.
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the stripes help camouflage them in a group - a predator will generally try to pick out one animal to attack - in a herd of moving zebra it is very difficult to distinguish one animal from the rest of the group
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There is no difference in spots. The male and female are hard to tell apart other than the female is slightly larger. Otherwise you have to use a microscope.
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Zoologists used to believe that the stripes act as a camouflage mechanism or that they play a role in social interactions, with slight variations of the pattern allowing the animals to distinguish between individuals. However, more recent experiments have led them to believe that the disruptive coloration is an effective means of confusing the visual system of the blood-sucking tsetse fly.