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Young giraffes
- dangerous
- feet
- hour
- ears
- important
- babies
- thorns
You and I learnt to walk when we were a few months old, but baby giraffes can walk after only twenty minutes. Baby giraffes live in a [ ] world. Lions and other animals like to eat them, so the babies must learn quickly. They learn to run fast and to stay on their [ ] almost all the time. Even at night, giraffes do not lie down. They stand by a tree and sleep. Big giraffes have long legs and they can run at fifty kilometres per [ ]. The English word giraffe comes from the Arabic word xirapha. The word means 'runs fast'. Giraffes have very long tongues. A giraffe's tongue can be fifty centimetres long! Giraffes use their tongues for cleaning themselves. They can even clean their [ ] with their tongues! Their tongues are important for other things too. A giraffe's favourite food is green leaves from acacia trees. These trees have sharp thorns, but the giraffe's tongue can go between the thorns. The giraffe's long neck is [ ] because the best leaves are at top of the trees.