3.  Giraffes are mammals.  They have very long necks.  The tallest Giraffe is up to nineteen feet tall!

4.  Male giraffes are called bulls.  Females are called cows.

5.  Giraffes once lived all over Africa.  Today giraffes live on the grasslands of southern and eastern Africa.  Giraffes can also be found in zoos all over the world.  I got to feed one at the zoo in Wichita.

6.  Giraffes sleep only a half an hour a day.  It normal takes a wile to stand up unless a predator is attacking.  giraffes take turns protecting each other when they eat and sleep.

7.  For a mother giraffe to give birth it has to in grasslands.  It takes up to an hour to give birth!  When the baby is being born it drops six feet to the ground.

8.  The mother giraffe get her own stall the stall has thick straw  The zookeepers watch them to make sure the calf dose not get hurt  After the baby is born the mother licks it clean just like in the wild.

9.  Jonson, Marine. Giraffes and their babies. New York: power kids press, 1999. Print.  “Giraffe.” “A to Z animals.” A to Z – animals /animals/giraffe.