Just another song about giraffes. That’s nice.

Very funny song about naughty giraffe.

He is such a naughty giraffe that he invited his friends elephants of the loft party ))) Can you imagine it.

These two girls made an amazing song about giraffes. They got all chances to become pop stars for giraffes. So few songs exist now day about this wonderfull animals.

Enjoy the music.

Wow! Never seen something like this. Though like all other animals. What interesting that they say on legs straight after born.

Baby Giraffes

Giraffes are the tallest recorded animal, and baby giraffes are no exception. Called calves, young giraffes are born 6 feet tall and grow 12 inches each month for the first three months. They often double their height in the first year. It takes only 30 minutes for a calf to learn to stand, and four to five days for it to walk well. For the first week of life, baby giraffes spend most of their time sitting on the ground and being hidden by their mothers. Older calves stay in groups with other calves, called creches, during the days and are rejoined by their mothers at night.

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A 10ft-tall topiary giraffe was violently beheaded by vandals.

Frank Edwards had spent a decade lovingly growing and shaping the artwork in his front garden in Boughton Lees, near Ashford, Kent.

But he was alerted this morning by a woman whose husband reported seeing the giraffe’s head and neck dumped at a roundabout four miles away in the village of Challock.

All that remains now of the giraffe, called Geraldine, is a stump about 6ft tall and disappointment among the hordes of villagers who marvelled at it from over Mr Edwards’ garden wall. Read the rest of this entry »

Such a curious giraffe! I never had a chance to try it on my camera so close. I like them so much. I wish to have my own giraffe’s farm!

Enjoy it!

I’ve just found this clip.
That’s amazing! Such a small lovely giraffe. Look at the ears! Amazing 🙂 and the litle soft horns   
Thank the author for such video! Enjoy it!

Erik Ringmar in December’s issue of the Journal of World History approaches one of the most interesting questions in World History- why China didn’t want to explore the world, but Europe did- by looking at different countries and how they reacted to the first import of giraffes into their midst. He takes three giraffes- one that was exported to the Florentine Medici regime in the 15th Century, another that arrived in China in the same century and a third that arrived in France in the 19th Century. From the reactions to these relocated giraffes, Ringmar hypothesizes three models of looking at the outside world- the first medieval Florentine of exoticist curiosity, the second Confucian of analogising the world to refer to China and the third scientific of using the giraffe to constitute an instance of a new law. From these three outlooks, he argues warily we might suggest why China didn’t attempt to conquer the world- with neither the curiosity of the Florentines nor the universalism of the European scientist, the outer world simply became an extended metaphor for the Middle Kingdom.

There is much to rejoice in in this delightfully lighthearted article. But there are also things to criticise. He himself recognises that three giraffes or even three reactions to three giraffes do not a history of civilisation consist, they indicate but do not prove. More seriously, Ringmar is too happy with a postmodernist view of the world, too happy with Florentine medievalists and too unhappy with western scientists to completely understand the importance of his giraffes. Western science was never a method to exclude people, rather by universalising knowledge it was far more inclusive than the Florentine or Chinese model. Read the rest of this entry »