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MrScorpio

(73,631 posts) Mon Apr 20, 2015, 02:50 PM Apr 2015

Animal Facts...

Giraffes do not walk until they reach the age of maturity. Instead, they are
transported around by their caretakers on a mini hover board as shown above.

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Animal Facts... (Original Post) MrScorpio Apr 2015 OP

LOL, you are so smart. I didn't know that! nt Fla Dem Apr 2015 #1

looka da puppy, looka da puppy rurallib Apr 2015 #2

Um - in that photo - LiberalElite Apr 2015 #3

Fla Dem

(23,692 posts)

1. LOL, you are so smart. I didn't know that! nt

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Mon Apr 20, 2015, 04:22 PM

Apr 2015

rurallib

(62,424 posts)

2. looka da puppy, looka da puppy

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Mon Apr 20, 2015, 10:04 PM

Apr 2015

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)

3. Um - in that photo -

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Mon Apr 20, 2015, 10:17 PM

Apr 2015

that looks more like a kind of a scale to me, and they're weighing the baby giraffe by the zoo keeper holding the giraffe and standing on the scale and then they'll subtract his weight from the result = baby giraffe's weight.

http://www.checkeredflag.com/blog/2011/july/29/baby-giraffe-born-at-virginia-zoo.htm

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