how to draw giraffe step by step for kids
Channel: Drawing for kids
Date: 17/11/2017

This tutorial teaches how to draw a cartoon giraffe for kids. Its a simple way of drawing, just watch and follow. Don't worry if you make some mistakes, you can always use an eraser.

The giraffe is a genus of African even-toed ungulate mammals, the tallest living terrestrial animals and the largest ruminants. The genus currently consists of one species, Giraffa camelopardalis, the type species.

 Just like human fingerprints and zebra stripes, the coat pattern of a giraffe is unique to that animal.

The pattern and the small hump on a giraffe's back are similar to those of a leopard. Years ago, many people thought the giraffe was a combination of a camel and a leopard, and they called these animals "camel-leopards."

You will often see giraffes walking around with birds on their backs. These birds are called tickbirds, or oxpecker birds (Buphagus africanus). They eat bugs that live in the giraffe's coat and alert the animals to danger by chirping loudly.

Even if you spent a lot of time with giraffes, you would never hear them make a noise. This is because giraffes communicate using noises that are too low for humans to hear, according to PBS Nature.