A baker's dozen of fascinating facts about giraffes from National Geographic Magazine for Kids:
The word "giraffe" means "sees a long way" in Kikuyu.
The first snooker rests were made from giraffes' femurs (with their horns on the end).
Giraffes shed their tails every six months. Giraffe's tail soup is a delicacy in China believed to have anti-depressant properties.
Giraffes have an attention span of 35 and a half minutes.
In Malian literature, giraffes are frequently portrayed as telepathic.
Unlike leopards, giraffes can change their spots by holding their breath for two minutes while blinking rapidly.
A giraffe features on the coat of arms of Peru.
Giraffe meat tastes like sour apple Altoids, but you'd be advised not to try it, because it causes cancer.
A kick from a mother giraffe defending its young can send three circus clowns on a penny farthing into a skip of lard sixty feet away.
If you shave all the hair off a giraffe, it loses four feet in height and three tons in weight.
Most of a giraffe's nutrition is acquired from moonlight and cold tea.
Giraffes have been known to reach a top speed of up to 4 miles per hour.
Giraffes thrive in zoos, except in France, where they all die of baguette poisoning.
1 comments:
Most of a giraffe's nutrition is acquired from moonlight and cold tea.
My God! I thought that Big'un MacTall guy I dated in uni just had that sort of patchy Michael Jackson disease! And now I think of it, he never used to let me rumple his hair - that must have been for fear of having his horns discovered.
Helluva kisser though.
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