Twenty Questions
-Animal, vegetable, or mineral?
-Animal.
-Is it a giraffe?
-Yes.
-Animal.
-Is it a giraffe?
-Yes.
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The next eighteen questions:
Does it stand 4.8 to 5.5 meters tall?
Yes.
Is it known to biologists as Giraffa camelopardalis?
Yes.
Is it the only animal on the savanna able to digest the prickly thorns of the acacia tree?
Yes.
Is it an African even-toed ungulate mammal?
Yes.
Is its closest relative the okapi?
Yes.
Does its range extend primarily from Chad to South Africa?
Yes.
Do the females associate in groups of a dozen or so members, while males live in smaller "bachelor" herds?
Yes.
Do the males determine female fertility by tasting the female's urine in order to detect estrus, in a multi-step process known as the flehmen response?
Yes.
Will they mingle with other herbivores in the Africa bush?
Yes.
Do a few older males impregnate all the fertile females in a herd?
Yes.
Is their height an advantage when searching for predators and other potential threats?
Yes.
Does its gestation period last between 14 and 15 months?
Yes.
Does its characteristic spotted pattern provide a certain degree of camouflage?
Yes.
Do only 25 to 50% of its calves reach adulthood?
Yes.
Does it show distinct patterns of stereotypic behaviours when removed from their natural environment?
Yes.
Does it browse on the twigs of trees, preferring trees of the genus Mimosa, also it appears that it can live without inconvenience on other vegetable food?
Yes.
Will it clean off any bugs that appear on its face with its extremely long tongue (about 45 cm/18 in)?
Yes.
Is it seeing anyone?
No.
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