The giraffe sets off at full speed with its enemy, and is so powerful as often to get rid of him; for I have seen giraffes killed which had the marks of the lion's teeth and claws upon them.
David didn’t know what sort of conversation giraffes liked, but he supposed that, like everybody else, they enjoyed talking about themselves.
Certainly it looked surprised, but all giraffesdid that.
The slight increase brought about by any single individual would be inherited and transmitted to the giraffes of the next generation; in other words, an individually acquired character would be inherited.
The Darwinian would say that all the young giraffes of any one generation would vary with respect to the length of the neck.
The young giraffes of this next generation would then begin, not where their parents did, but from an advanced condition.
Soon after the arrival of the giraffes at the Regent's Park, Mr. Warwick obtained three for Mr. Cross, of the Surrey Gardens.
The giraffes have a habit, in captivity at least, of plucking the hairs out of each other's manes and tails, and swallowing them.
It is from the southern parts of Africa, and was presented by that veteran zoologist, the Earl of Derby; the other was one of the giraffes brought by M.
In London, some years ago, two giraffes were burned to death in their stables, when the slightest sound would have given notice of their danger, and saved their lives.
Fifty years ago, but little was known about giraffes in Europe or America.
The giraffes saw them plainly enough, but they got to within four hundred yards before the herd began to shift.
However, the conversation was soon shifted by the discovery of a herd of giraffes to the north.
In the evening they saw two giraffes lumbering across the horizon.
The grass was not more than a foot high, and the ground hard; the giraffes about four hundred yards distant steaming along, and raising a cloud of dust from the dry earth, as on this side of the mountains there had been no rain.
Failing, as usual, in my endeavours to obtain a shot, I made a considerable circuit, and shortly observed the tall heads of giraffes towering over the low mimosas.
Course west the whole day; saw giraffes and one ostrich on the east bank.
The natives crowded round them, exclaiming, "that they were the giraffes of our country.
The Latookas assured me that at the foot of those mountains there were elephants and giraffes in abundance; accordingly, I determined to make a reconnaissance of the country.
Neither had seen giraffesin the wild state before, and here at last was a towering old bull, whose tail, if it could but be secured, would amply satisfy Kate Manning's commands.
Once in the woodlands the giraffes would have much the best of it.
Scarcely an animal troubled to look up at us, and only the giraffes ran.
If you asked me about the habits of giraffes I should say something.
She would tell you she hadn't any idea what a giraffe was, so would Chesterford, and you would find him looking up giraffes in the Encyclopaedia afterwards.
One afternoon a herd ofgiraffes stood silhouetted on this skyline quite a half hour gazing curiously down on our camp.
We saw impalla in the scrub, and manygiraffes and bucks on the plains.
For many days, while at Sofi, we saw large herds of giraffes and antelopes on the opposite side of the river, about two miles distant.
The attitude of fixed attention and surprise of the three giraffes was sufficient warning for the rest of the herd, who immediately filed up from the lower ground, and joined their comrades.
I had observed by the telescope that the giraffes were standing as usual upon an elevated position, from whence they could keep a good lookout.
On September 2d a herd of twenty-eight giraffestempted me at all hazards to cross the river.
It was shortly joined by two others, and I perceived the heads of several giraffes lower down the incline, that were now feeding on their way to the higher ground.
In 1836 four Giraffes were successfully taken to the zoölogical gardens at Regent's Park, London.
As a matter of fact, the size is all against it; it's too large to be ignored altogether and treated as a yard, and it's too small to keep giraffes in.
Giraffes and rhinoceroses now are trampling over the sites of the cities and universities of the future.
The palæotherium and the deinoceras, the mastodon and the mammoth, the huge giraffes and antelopes of sunnier times, succeed to the ancestral kangaroos and wombats of the secondary strata.
Illustration] Other managers gave up trying to import Giraffes several years ago, owing to the great cost and care attending them.
He told us there were, by counting on his fingers, eight giraffes quietly feeding a short distance in front.
The third afternoon of our stay seven giraffes were seen by my herd boy, who was looking after the oxen in the veldt, and he came and reported the same.
We had proceeded but a short distance when we met three Mesere Bushmen with their bows and arrows, who told my driver they were coming to tell us of several giraffes that were feeding in a dense bush not far away.
Kaffirs came in to tell us there are plenty of giraffes and buffalo between this and Ramakaban river.
A herd of giraffes appear, with their long necks stretched up toward the leaves of the mimosa trees, on which they are feeding.
A glade suddenly opens where a group of shaggy buffaloes are grazing, or a herd of startled giraffes scamper away through the foliage with their long necks looking like "locomotive obelisks.
Buffaloes, zebras, giraffes and antelope, roamed through the magnificent parks of the section, affording excellent sport for the natives, and inviting the traveler to halt for a time in order to enjoy the thrill of a hunt.
Giraffes (of the genus Giraffa), and they are not found out of Africa.
As a matter of fact, Giraffes in captivity are not always sheep-like in temper.
AH] Vaillant also, in his travels into the interior parts of Africa, asserts, that he met with giraffes in very great numbers.
All travellers also uniformly inform us that the female giraffes have horns like the males, but that they are smaller.
A herd of six or seven stately giraffes suspended their browsing on the upper branches of an acacia tree, and gazed at them with their liquid eyes, flicking their satiny bodies with tails that terminated in large black tassels.
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