Assertion: giraffe's neck | /r/HasProperty | long
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
value: nearly a foot
type: OTHER
value: massively
type: DEGREE
value: famously
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Adult male giraffes bang their long necks together in a form of ritual fighting, during which no harm is done to either giraffe.
text: Why do giraffes have such long necks?
text: However, one objection is that it fails to explain why female giraffes also have long necks.
text: However, this theory fails to adequately explain why female giraffes also have long necks.
text: However, one criticism of this theory is that it fails to adequately explain why female giraffes also have long necks.
text: ’s neck and legs are about 1.8 long and their neck weighs about 272 kilograms.
text: Their favourite grub is the acacia tree, and they use their long necks to reach the leaves and buds in the treetops.
text: Giraffes have long necks that can be over six foot (>1.8 m) in length.
text: The Giraffe has an enormously long neck which allows it to exploit the leaves and vegetation that are too high up for other animals to find.
text: Even though giraffes have very long necks their necks are too short to reach the ground because of their tall height.
text: ’s neck can be nearly a foot long.
text: The neck of the giraffe is extremely long and may be upto 7.9 feet.
text: Even though giraffes have an extremely long neck, it is only made up of seven vertebrae, like all other mammals.
text: Giraffe has a long neck
text: Why Giraffes have long necks?
text: A lot of this height and weight is because of the giraffes incredibly long neck, which can be 8 feet in length and can weigh almost 500 pounds.
text: The giraffe can actually swing it’s long neck really fast and hit an animal.
text: A giraffe has an incredibly long neck and this makes bending over very dangerous.
text: The Giraffe has a massively long neck which permits it to adventure the leaves and vegetation that are excessively high up for different creatures to find.
text: Giraffes have a very long neck and legs.
text: ’s neck can be nearly a foot long.
text: Their favourite grub is the acacia tree, and they use their long necks to reach the leaves and buds in the treetops.
text: Giraffes are easy to identify with their long necks, skinny legs and distinctive spotted markings.
text: Giraffes use their long necks to reach for leaves high in trees.
text: A Giraffe has a long neck for a number of reasons, the long neck allows them to survey the plains and spot predators such as Lions.
text: The Giraffe seems to have a long neck, a very slender, angular dark-orange body with pale purple spots and short, brown hair starting on the back of their head, and going all the way down their back and on to the tip of their tail.
text: Giraffes have very long necks; bending down to drink water makes giraffes susceptible to attack because they cannot see what is going on around them.
text: The neck is so long that the swing looks slower than it is and the blows less hard but the sounds of their impacts can be heard from 100 meters away.
text: They have long necks and they have long legs.
text: They’re normally known for their long necks and ability to clean their ears with their own tongue, but this is surprising, to say the least.
text: What most persons notice when they first see a giraffe is its very long neck and its thin, long legs.
text: Other scientists such as Elissa Cameron and Johan du Toit agree with the hypothesis that the necks of giraffes are long because of their continuous reach of high trees, especially because of their preference for the acacia, whose leaves are at heights that other herbivores cannot reach.
text: The hypothesis that giraffes have long neck due to the scarcity of food at low heights is not entirely accepted, so the dilemma is not fully explained yet.
text: Why do giraffes have long necks?
text: Giraffes are known for their long necks and beautiful spotted coats.
text: A giraffe wields its long neck to communicate.
text: Jean Lamarck and later Charles Darwin proposed that a giraffe evolved a long neck by inheriting traits acquired through use and disuse.
text: They are exclusively browsers, using their long necks to reach into the crowns of trees to feed.
text: In order to drink water, the giraffe has to spread its front legs and bend its long neck to the water.
text: When battling, giraffes swing their long necks and use these structures help deliver a heavier strike.
text: Avoiding colds and sore throats must be a priority when your neck is so long.
text: The neck is extremely long and can reach up to 6.6-7.9 feet, accounting for much of the animal’s height.
text: If the first giraffe had a long neck and two foot long heart, but no mechanism to regulate it, when he first stooped to get a drink of water, he would have blown his mind.
text: Giraffes have evolved long necks to see predators from a great distance and to reach their favorite food sources.
text: Giraffes have evolved long necks to see predators from a great distance and to reach their favorite food sources.
text: They also have very long necks.
text: Their favourite grub is the acacia tree, and they use their long necks to reach the leaves and buds in the treetops.
text: Giraffes are browsers, so use their long neck to feed on the leaves, shoots, and fruits of tall bushes and trees.
text: Its long neck gives it a large amount of dead space, in spite of its narrow windpipe.
text: Their long necks allow them to reach leaves, seeds, fruits, buds and branches high up in mimosa and acacia trees.
text: Giraffes have humongous hearts that weigh around 25 pounds, generating enough pressue to propel blood up through their long necks and into their brains.
text: The giraffe is the tallest living animal which is instantly recognizable by its exceptionally long neck.
text: It is a good adaptation as their long neck is too short for them to reach the ground
text: Their long neck and legs do not provide enough energy to hold their neck while in water.
text: The apparent answer is that their long necks allow them to reach high vegetation, as they are herbivores.
text: Giraffes are the world's tallest land mammals, and their long necks enable them to feed from trees that other animals cannot reach.
text: They are probably best known for their distinctive spots, which camouflage them in the vegetation, and their long necks and legs.
text: Their favourite grub is the acacia tree, and they use their long necks to reach the leaves and buds in the treetops.
text: Giraffes are easy to identify with their long necks, skinny legs and distinctive spotted markings.
text: Giraffes use their long necks to reach for leaves high in trees.
text: The giraffe is adapted to its habitat by being able to reach high food with its long neck and tall body.
text: With its long neck and stilt-like legs, the giraffe is the world’s tallest land animal.
text: Their long necks, regal stance, and beautiful features make them seem almost surreal, despite the fact that they roam the African plains with very real danger all around them.
text: One of the distinguishing characteristics of a giraffe is its long neck.
text: They’re normally known for their long necks and ability to clean their ears with their own tongue, but this is surprising, to say the least.
text: What most persons notice when they first see a giraffe is its very long neck and its thin, long legs.
text: Giraffes are known for their long necks and beautiful spotted coats.
text: Their famously long necks are six feet in length.
text: Their long necks make it easy to eat leaves that other animals can’t reach.
text: We finally have fossils that show how giraffes got their long neck from short-necked ancestors, which most fossil giraffids were.
text: Their long necks offer an excellent field of view but they depend on the alarm of others when drinking.
text: A giraffe wields its long neck to communicate.
text: They are exclusively browsers, using their long necks to reach into the crowns of trees to feed.
text: The age-old question of how the giraffe got its long neck may now be at least partly answered: Long necks were present in giraffe ancestors that lived at least 16 million years ago, a new study finds.
text: We wanted to figure out how the giraffe got its long neck because we know that its ancestors had a shorter neck," said the study's senior researcher, Nikos Solounias, a professor of anatomy at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) College of Osteopathic Medicine.
text: In order to drink water, the giraffe has to spread its front legs and bend its long neck to the water.
text: The body of the giraffe is relatively little compared to the magnitude of other body parts, but its bone structure supports the substantial weight of its organs and its long neck, which allow it to achieve fast speeds when running.
text: When they do drink, they are defenceless, and spend a long time getting ready – being very nervous and watchful while spreading their front legs wide in order to bring their very long necks as close as possible to the water.
text: Their long necks contain just seven bones, the same as all other mammals (including humans) but the bones have ball and socket like joints that give them much more flexibility.
text: Because of its long neck, one would expect blood to rush to the brain of a giraffe when it lowers its head to drink, or to drain away from the brain when the head is lifted back up.
text: The giraffe is the tallest living animal which is instantly recognizable by its exceptionally long neck.
text: The giraffe is surely one of the strangest animals on earth, with its extremely long neck!
text: Giraffes are herbivores, and thanks to their long necks they’re able to get to the very yummiest leaves and buds, and they have pretty impressive tongues that play a part too.
text: Male giraffes swing their long necks and repeatedly head butt the others body.
text: They hit their long necks and heads.
text: Male giraffes use their long necks when fighting, swinging their heads to club their opponents.
text: Adult male giraffes bang their long necks together in a form of ritual fighting, during which no harm is done to either giraffe.
text: Male giraffes swing their long necks and repeatedly head butt the others body.
text: They fight by swinging their long necks from side to side, and hitting each other with their neck and head.
text: They hit their long necks and heads.
text: Male giraffes use their long necks when fighting, swinging their heads to club their opponents.
text: They fight by swinging their long necks from side to side, and hitting each other with their neck and head.