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Julius Caesar brought one to Rome. Because it was as big as a camel and was spotted like a leopard, the poet Horace deduced that it was a hybrid of the two.
From that bit of unnatural history came the species’ modern scientific name, Giraffa Camelopardalis. Actually, a giraffe’s physiology is almost as strange as Roman theories.
Bristol Foster has studied herds of giraffes in Kenya at length. In a recent issue of National Geographic, Dr. Foster described how evolution "has modified the giraffe’s anatomy to allow this stretched-version mammal to function.”
A giraffe’s elongated neck has only seven vertebrae1—the same as man’s. But in the giraffe, each one is eight inches long. To compensate for all the dead air space in that long throat, the animal has oversize lungs.
“Without this extra airpumping capacity,” Dr. Foster explains, “a giraffe would breathe the same used air over and over.”
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“To drive blood eight feet up to the head,” he adds,
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