The word "giraffe" comes from the Arabic word‚ "zirafah‚" meaning "the tallest of all." The giraffe is the tallest land animal in the world‚ standing up to nine feet tall and weighing up to 2‚800 pounds! This huge mammal is best known for its long neck‚ spotted pattern‚ and long legs. The giraffe’s scientific classification begins with the kingdom of animalia. From there is the phylum of chordate‚ and after that is the class of mammalian. Next‚ is the order of artiodactyla‚ then the family of giraffidea
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field in the science world because it helps to explain all the different studies of animals. One important and what I feel is the greatest animal studied in zoology is the giraffe also known as Giraffa camelopardalis. The giraffe is the tallest animal averaging seventeen feet. Giraffes usually weigh about 2‚500 lbs. Giraffes along with their extremely
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he is around‚ one cannot help but notice the giraffe because of his size and unique pattern that illustrates the side of his body like a beautiful art piece. He enjoys spending time with his close friends but is also social with other animals. Because of his size‚ he often feels that he is being judged‚ making him self-conscious sometimes but he never shows any signs of this. The giraffe is known for its long neck and legs. The neck and legs of a giraffe are both more than 6 feet long when fully grown
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Giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) are the world’s tallest living mammals. Some giraffes are nearly twenty feet tall with necks that are six feet long. The mystery of how the giraffe developed its incredibly long legs and neck is a key argument in the theory of natural selection. The giraffe has also developed an interesting cardiovascular system to accommodate for this adaptation. The heart of a giraffe can maintain a blood pressure 2.5 times greater than humans. There are also hypotheses that the
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According to the ideals of "the Cult of of True Womanhood" which was also called the "The Cult of Domesticity " women were supposed to hold to perfect virtue in all senses. The women who followed these standards tended to be generally literate and lived in the northeast‚ particularly New York and Massachusetts. Women were put in the center of the domestic living and were expected to fulfill the roles of a calm and nurturing and supportive mother‚ a loving and faithful wife‚ and a passive‚ delicate
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Megan McGlauchlen Women’s Voice Essay Women faced many restrictions during the 1800’s based solely on their gender. The Cult of Domesticity served as a basic guide that explained the appropriate ways women of this time period were expected to act. It essentially laid out four proper characteristics women had to portray: piety‚ purity‚ domesticity‚ and submissiveness. Many authors captured the difficulties in a woman’s life with having to deal with such strict expectations in their writing. These
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It has long been wondered by scientists just how the giraffe evolved to have its long neck. The giraffe‚ world’s tallest mammal‚ was thought to have developed its neck to enable it to find food in higher places‚ and that it made it easier for the animal to fight predators. A new study‚ however‚ proves that the evolution of the giraffe’s neck came in several stages. First‚ the neck vertebrae reached into the mammal’s neck‚ and millions of years later‚ the vertebrae extended to the tail. This is the
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The short story The Giraffe‚ written by Mauro Sensi‚ provides me with insight of the complexity of everyday life by helping me understand the purpose of what I see‚ experience‚ or do from day to day. It helps me understand the purpose of why people purchase the things they do and why people say the things they do. In everyday life‚ I come across many people who own many different things. The reasoning behind most of their purchases is usually very simple‚ they either just needed or wanted the thing
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Giraffes’ long necks are a very distinct feature and unique to itself‚ but how did giraffes get this adaptation? One possible way comes from Theory 1 which states that the ancestors of giraffes had tried to stretch their necks to get food higher up such as leaves from trees due to competition on the ground. This made their necks gradually longer. The effect can be found in the paragraph about Theory 1 which says‚”As their necks became longer‚ they were able to reach more food. Those ancestral giraffes
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