Tenth Annual Reading Rainbow Contest

A Giraffe's Life

Giraffe Facts:
A giraffe can grow to be 20 feet tall.

Giraffes eat mostly acacia leaves.

They have no predator or prey.

Male giraffes eat leave higher on the tree and the females eat the ones closer to the bottom.

Giraffe's physical characteristics are a very long neck, brown spots, long thin legs with front ones longer, and short horns covered with skin and hair.

The giraffe's ancestors are the okapi.

The giraffe's ancestors first appeared in central Asia about 15 million years ago.

Most giraffes live either in east Africa or in Angola and Zambia in southwestern Africa.

Giraffe's legs are two yards up from the ground.

A giraffe is the tallest living animal.

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