With a height of up to six metres, giraffes are both the tallest and longest-legged mammals living on land: the giraffe can easily reach the leaves of the treetops, which no other animal can eat from below. But the long neck has even more advantages: The giraffe is its own lookout tower, so to speak, and can spot possible enemies approaching it from afar - and then dodge or run away. Thanks to the long neck, giraffes also have an enlarged body surface and can thus dissipate heat well when they are too hot. Even though the neck is so enormously long: a giraffe has no more cervical vertebrae than other mammals, namely just as many as 7. Theirs are just particularly large.
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