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Join us on a trip to Africa to interview a giraffe!
Catch that ea! A ea is tickling
the gira e. Follow the ea’s path.
If you could ask a giraffe any questions you wanted, what would you ask?
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That little bird is called an oxpecker and it is a good friend to a giraffe. We don’t have arms and hands to flick away pesky ticks, fleas and flies. Oxpeckers pick them off of us. They eat the little pests and also help keep us clean.
A long, deep sleep is very dangerous for giraffes. We might not sense when a predator comes near. During the day, we doze on and off for a few minutes at a time. Quietly and gently we relax our necks and let our heads hang downward. At night, we lie down. But even then, we only take cat naps. We wake up every few minutes and look around.
Giraffes are the tallest land animals. Use the missing number in the equasion to find out how tall a giraffe grows.
Male giraffes can grow to be ___ meters tall. That is the size of 3 – 4 grown men standing on each other’s shoulders!
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Female giraffes can grow to be ___ meters tall. Baby giraffes are about 2 meters tall when they are born. That is more than 6 feet tall! If one meter equals about 3 feet, approximately how many feet tall are adult giraffes? Standards Link: Algebra: Solve problems involving numeric equations; express simple unit conversions.
Don’t challenge a giraffe to see who can stick out their tongue the farthest! Color the spaces that have 2 dots red to find out how many inches a giraffe can stick out its tongue.
Add the numbers to find out!
Do you know how many bones are in your neck? Subtract these numbers for the answer.
Standards Link: Number Sense: Solve problems using addition and subtraction.
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