By: EW
Giraffe
Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus and Species
Fun Facts | Art and Poetry | Works Cited
The Characteristics that place the Giraffe in to this Kingdom are:
All are multicelluular.
They are all heterotrophs
They ingest and digest all of their food
All warm blooded
They all have tissues
The tissues are specialized to do special things
In most tissues there are organs
They bear their young live
Are capable of reproducing sexually
Body made up of cells organized by tissues
Characteristics that place it here are:
Have a spinal cord.
Have a complete digestion system.
Has a heart with blood vessels and a closed blood system.
Has a tail
It has a 3-germ layer system and well-devolved coelom
They have a symmetrical body
Characteristics that place it here are:
Mammals have hair
Their hair is made of a protein called keratin
They have middle ears bones, hair, and mammary glands.
They hear sounds transmitted from the outside world
Have 3 trains of bones; mallues, incus, and stapes.
They feed their young with milk.
They have teeth,
They also have four chambered heart
Have food and air passageways
Characteristics that place it here are:
They tend to live on savannas or plains.
The are even-toed
Have horns or antlers at the front of their skull,
Hors can be short and narrow or long
They can have a stomach that ranges from 1-4 chamberers
They do not chew their food
They have a very abundant check-bone
Characteristics that place it here are:
They are very tall
They have long narrow heads
Have an extremely long neck
Their legs contain only 4 bones
Have short horns
Have bony cores
Giraffes weigh around kilograms
Genus and Species: Giraffa camelopardalis
Characteristics that place it here are:
They live on tree-dotted grasslands south of the Sahara in Africa
They can reach up to 18 feet
Their shoulder height is 12 feet.
Giraffe's color is broken into brown blotches.
Their color grows darker has they age
Each of their markings are unique from one another
They rip leaves of of trees to eat
Have great sense of smell and they have great vision
Their life span is 15-20 years
They can go with out water for a month.
Both male and female have horns
Giraffes have 7 vertebrae in their back just like other animals
Because giraffes necks are so long their vascular systems are specially equipped with valves to prevent blood from draining from the brain.
Giraffes are protected by hunting laws
The male Giraffes head gains weight as they get older.
Females can weigh from 1540-2600 lbs.
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Tall Giraffe, Tall Giraffe! Trotting along the plains of Africa, You see their brown spots, They loom above the other creatures, You can see there beautiful features. What animal is this you may ask, The Giraffe of course, What other animal would you see that is so tall, and is even bigger than a horse.
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Lamerato, Amanda. "Giraffa camelopardis." 11 Feb 2004. <http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Giraffa_camelopardalis.html>.
Estes, Richard. "GIRAFFE,Giraffa camelopardalis." The Safari Companion . 11 Feb 2004 <http://www.nature-wildlife.com/girtxt.htm>
