Giraffes
Erionna Jones
Facts on Giraffes
Eating Habits
- Seedpods
- Fruits
- Flowers
- Thorns
- Climbing plants
- Acacia Tree
- Wild Apricot trees
Being a ruminant, it firstly chews the food then swallows it and reiterates food back to their mouths to chew semi-digested food properly. A most astonishing fact concerning their eating habits is that they don’t drink water very often and can live for a week without water.
Habitat for giraffes
Giraffes have a preference for feeding on young leaves and shoots but will eat grasses and other plant matter. Their favorite meal consists of the tender leaves that grow on the crowns of acacia trees. They have long, prehensile that provide them with great dexterity and the ability to grasp onto shoots and pull them into their mouths as they strip off the leaves.