Introducing....Knobby the giraffe...he is an old guy and is hanging out by himself. A couple things, one the knobs on his head (how he got his name) are because as giraffes get older the skull bone start calcifying and making bone lumps, second I will tell you in the other giraffe pictures how to tell the difference between the girls and boys. Third, the darker the giraffe the older the giraffe. Lastly, I learned this time that the trees that the giraffes eat (akasha) has some type of chemical that if one tree has it is will spread it to the other trees so that the giraffes taste bad taste and don't eat it...but the chemical fades and then giraffes do come back and eat the mess out of the trees! Also giraffes can't keep their heads down too long to eat because when they stand up they can't get the blood back up their neck to their head and they can die so they have to eat fast!
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