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Just so people can see it moving and that it is
possible to put game stuff in the Neon environment
and have it work.
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Durée : 265 s |
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Photo slideshow of the giraffes at the wild animal
park I used to work at. I included the boats at
the beginning so that you could see how the
tourists could observe the animals as they moved
through the park. --I'm between 16 to 22 years old
in the photographs.
Giraffes are even-toed ungulates, meaning that
they are hooved. Giraffes are ruminants, meaning
they have a four-chambered stomach like cattle,
and chew their cud to assist in digestion. Like
cattle, the females are called cows, the males
bulls, and the babies calves. Even though giraffes
have the longest necks in the animal kingdom,
their necks only have seven vertebrae just as most
mammals. Giraffes have special valves in the blood
vessels in their necks to prevent the blood from
rushing out of their head when lifting it quickly,
so as to prevent fainting. A bull giraffe can
reach a height of 15 to 17 feet (4.7-5.3 m). They
have a long, black tongue which can be extended up
to 18 inches (46 cm) in order to strip leaves from
high branches.
At 1:32, a male giraffe is testing a female's
urine to see if she is ready to breed (it's called
flehmen or lip-curl response). The female with
legs sticking out of her backside is giving birth.
After a gestation period of 15 months, the mothers
give birth standing up. You'll notice that the
baby's horns are flattened to allow for making the
birthing process easier. There were several babies
born while I worked there, but one female was
never very good at motherhood,... so we would
always have to bottle raise her young each time
she gave birth. The female giraffe that is nursing
two babies is actually the mother of the third
baby standing to the side. Giraffes in the wild
will sometimes leave their young with one female
as they go off to forage on leaves and bark. At
2:52, the giraffe with its head folded down is
sleeping. For many years, zoologists actually
believed giraffes never slept. Apparently, they
didn't spend enough time with them though, because
I witnessed them sleeping fairly often.
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