Happy World Giraffe Day! 🎉🦒
Stop by the Giraffe area at the Zoo from 10am – 2pm to celebrate with us! Can’t make it? Here are some of our favorite giraffe facts:
♥Their hearts weigh almost 25 lbs
📯Their “horns” are called ossicones and are made of cartilage
👅Their tongues are about 20 inches long and are bluish-purple
🍽Their hooves are the size of dinner plates
🚀Adaptations to help fight gravity, like tight skin around their legs, have been studied by NASA to help produce space suits
(📷: Zookeeper Christy)
