GIRAFFES: LIKE
SPECKLED TOWERS
Often reaching a height of five to six metres (15-20 feet), you could
find a resemblance between giraffes and speckled towers. The longest
part of a giraffe is its neck. Its long neck enables it to reach the
remotest branches on trees and feed by grazing on the sprouts and
leaves. These thorny plants, which the giraffes don't chew, first go
directly into their four-compartment stomach. Then they regurgitate
them back to the mouth, where the giraffe chews them. Finally, they
swallow them again and send them to
another compartment in their
stomach.
However, there is something
very interesting about this
process. As we have recently
mentioned, giraffes regurgitate
thorny plants from their stomachs
back to their mouths to be
chewed. But, as you may
imagine, this is rather a long
journey. The food needs to travel
a distance of three or four metres
(10-13 feet) in the long neck of
the giraffe. As you can also
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