Masai Giraffe (
Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi). Males grow to 18 feet tall and weigh up to 4,275 lbs, yet they can run 35 miles per hour, and kill a lion with a single kick. They have a four-chambered stomach and chew their cud like cows. Their tongues are 18 inches long. Who knew that they are purple?
While I was shooting the giraffes, several tour buses came by, and every one of the drivers mentioned that the giraffes have seven vertebrae in their spines, the same as humans.
I think I've got that down, now. Some of the drivers even quizzed the passengers as to how many vertebrae there are in a giraffe's neck, but the response reminded me of the scene in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", where Ben Stein's character was teaching economics. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Seven.
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