Giraffes truly do stand out in a crowd, be it at the zoo or in their natural habitat of Central Africa. Both of these options require factual knowledge of or faith in the giraffe's past with just an apathetic attention to the beast's present architecture. The only other possible explanation is that the giraffe was designed and built to be fully functional and has never been or ever will be an animal in the process of change. Let's consider the complete giraffe with all its 'stretched' parts, as though we had to build one. The giraffe is a mammal and there is much of its anatomy that should follow that of other mammals.
Most mammals do have seven neck bones.
Man's upright posture is unique in that its head of fourteen pounds is perfectly balanced upon the short neck of seven bones. The head of all other land mammals must be up held against the pull of gravity with muscles that are always in tension. The giraffe's 500 pound neck would weigh less and consume less energy if its forty-five pound head were balanced like a broomstick with just one joint at each end and a single bone between the head and shoulders. If the shortage of food drove the neck to change, would not the number of neck bones and associated joints be equally changeable by the evolutionary process. The count of seven neck bones is very good and the design of those seven bones, constructed much like an aircraft landing strut capable of taking tremendous side stresses, is marvelous indeed.