INTERESTING FACTS : How Giraffes Drink! ( + commentary )

Commentary and Anatomy of the Reticulated Giraffe:
(provided by our Abercrombie & Kent tour guide, Cozmos)

How do Giraffes drink? + Giraffe Anatomy!
8th April, 2013
Samburu National Park/Reserve, Kenya


COMMENTARY:
"Now the way a giraffe is built, you notice the vital organs are way up.
The heart is somewhere in the middle, so it has to be so strong to pump blood continuously to the brain.
One of the delicate positions for them is to drink:
they have to widen the front legs,
lower the chest,
and this will bring the head down.

Now the neck has 7 vertebrae columns like human beings.
At every point those vertebrae control the blood up and down.

The back of the head has a strong muscle that pulls the neck to that particular position (45°).

A giraffe drinking is in the most delicate battle.
If you knock one down, that's the easiest way to kill it because the pressure from the heart will rot the brains, and they will not be able to wake up.
So they are quite delicate, but God has built them to really persevere through all that.

Their legs: the skin is so tight, just like astronauts wearing tight pants.
The blood does not immediately rush to their feet, otherwise it controls all that.

They also have cone cells and rod cells like human beings, and they can see colour.
More than 1 giraffe is called a "JOURNEY", a 'journey of giraffes'."