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The death of Victor, the giraffe who fell spread-eagled at a British zoo recently and couldn’t regain his feet, dramatized a weakness of the world’s tallest animal.
When an 18-foot giraffe slips, it’s a long way down and an even longer way back up.
Victor weighed a ton, and in the five days before he succumbed everything from airbags to a specially built hoist was tried to get him standing again.
The zoo’s owner, John Knowles, told reporters that if the efforts had succeeded, Victor would have been “the first giraffe as far as I know to have done the splits and lived.”
Sleep Standing Up
Normally when a giraffe lies down it must go through a laborious process of tucking its hind legs under its body, when folding those long front legs. Some have been observed to sleep standing up, possible to avoid all that bother. These ungainly-appearing giants have intrigued onlookers since ancient Egyptians put them on display in zoos. In 46 B.C.
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