Necking Vs Giraffes

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Lynnzee, the giraffe is an interesting animal. I found that their tongue is an amazing 18 inches’ long. Could you imagine having a tongue that long; oh the things we could do with it! I thought your fact about necking was interesting so I decided to look it up. What I found was a video of two males necking and it looked extremely painful. Here is a link to the video if you would like to see it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60SZ7Hk0wdQ. I could only imagine the injuries they would get from that. Did you know much like us a giraffe only has 7 cervical vertebrae? The only difference between them and us is the size of their neck bones; each one of their cervical vertebrae are very large measuring up to 10 inches. This makes even their

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