What foods do giraffe eat?

Giraffe are predominantly browsers and mainly eat leaves and buds on trees and shrubs. They will also eat herbs, climbers and vines, and prefer flowers and fruit when in season.

Giraffes are herbivores and have a plant-based diet. The leaves of the acacia and mimosa tree are their favorite food but they will also eat other leaves, seeds, buds, branches of trees, and occasionally grass.

No, giraffes are herbivores and don't eat meat.

Giraffes eat a combination of leaves, seeds, buds, and branches – and sometimes even grass. Their favorite trees to snack on are acacia and mimosa trees. The tall animals eat these plants as they are easy to reach.

In the wild, giraffes primarily eat the leaves and twigs of acacia, mimosa, and wild apricot trees (also various trees and shrubs in the genera Commiphora and Terminalia). Still, their diet does extend well beyond the more commonly eaten plants just mentioned. They even eat some fruit.

Giraffes use their long necks and legs to eat and browse leaves,flowers and fruits that shorter herbivores can't reach. Broccoli is an edible and nutritious flowering head vegetable in the cabbage family. Here together we have a giraffe family feeding on a large broccoli tree!

Giraffes do eat carrots and they do quite like the taste of these vegetables. In zoos, visitors are often given vegetable foods like carrots to offer to giraffes as a treat. It is however important not to over-feed giraffes on carrots only since they need a versatile diet to remain healthy.

In the domesticated environment such as Zoos, Giraffes would eat bananas if offered. However, in the wild, giraffes mostly consume the leaves, Acacia tree twigs, mimosa, wild apricot trees, and the fruits found in shrubs.

Giraffes like Denver have a specially adapted tongue and mouth that allow them to eat thorny branches without getting poked. They also have thick sticky saliva that coats any thorns consumed to protect their mouth and digestive tract!

Giraffes live up to 26 years in the wild and slightly longer in captivity.

Three hearts, to be exact. There is a systemic (main) heart. Two lesser hearts pump blood to the gills where waste is discarded and oxygen is received. They work like the right side of the human heart.

April the giraffe, who gave birth in 2017 in an event watched by people all over the world, has died, the New York zoo where she lived said Friday. The giraffe, who was 20, was euthanized because of worsening arthritis that increasingly impacted her quality of life, Animal Adventure Park said in a statement.

April was euthanized Friday in Harpursville, New York. Animal Adventure's veterinary team said her body was taken to Cornell University Veterinary School for a necropsy, and she will be cremated. Her ashes will be returned to Animal Adventure Park.

April the Giraffe

April, 20, gained fame giving birth as millions watched via livestream. She was euthanized on Friday because of her worsening arthritis.

A female giraffe (cow) can have as many as 12 calves in her life span of 20-25 years. The female becomes mature anywhere from 4-5 years of her life and the male giraffe becomes mature at about 3.5 years into his life but usually don't breed until the age of 8 or so.

The Little Things says twins are extremely rare for giraffes. Only 1out of 218,000 giraffes MAY have twins and only a few zoos in the world have them. According to the San Diego Zoo, giraffes usually have only one baby at a time. In rare cases, they might have two.