Рассказ о жирафе на английском языке 2 класс

This animal is found almost throughout Africa South of the Sahara. Appearance the giraffe is so unique that it cannot be confused with any other animal: relatively small head on a disproportionately long neck, a sloping back, long legs. Giraffe - the tallest living mammals: its height from the ground to the forehead reaches 4,8-5,8 m Weight adult male of about 750 kg, females are somewhat lighter. The eyes of the giraffe are black, edged with thick lashes, and the ears are short and narrow. Both males and females have the forehead small horns. Horns covered with hair, sometimes their is only one pair, but sometimes two. In addition, often in the middle of the forehead is a special bone growth, reminiscent of the extra (unpaired) horn. Giraffe colouring is highly variable, and in the past zoologists on this basis, even allocated some species of giraffes. Different coloured giraffes can interbreed. In addition, even in the same place, in one herd, there are significant individual variances in color. Claim that two identically painted giraffes in General it is impossible to find: spotted pattern is as unique as a fingerprint imprint. Therefore, color variations only known to stretch to take for the subspecies. The most famous of the so-called massicci camelopardalis, inhabiting savannas of East Africa. The basic background of colouring is yellowish-red, this background in the scattered mess of chocolate-brown irregular spots.