The highest land animals giraffes

Giraffe is a kind of African ruminant cloven-hoofed animals, is the world's highest living land animals.Males as high as 4.8 to 6.1 meters high, weighing 1500 kilograms.Generally speaking, the female is much smaller.Mainly distributed in Africa, Ethiopia, Sudan, countries such as Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia, living in tropical and subtropical Africa vast grasslands.However, the giraffe's ancestral home is in Asia.According to textual research, palaeontologists who study the giraffe originated in Asia.
(giraffe) a ruminant artiodactyl growth in Africa, is the world's highest living land animals.
The male body
Males as high as 4.5 to 6.1 meters high, weight 800 ~ 1800 kg.Recorded the highest giraffe is rochester zoo in England on January 8, 1959, from Kenya to a named "George," the chief male giraffe.When it is 9 years old, the head almost touch 6 meters tall giraffe.The giraffe in July 22, 1969, died.Shot a giraffe in the wild, reportedly had a close to 7 m tall (6.9 meters), higher than the highest African elephant 2 meters, but there is no evidence, is thought to be the hunter deliberately exaggerated.
Female distribution
Generally speaking, the female is much smaller.Mainly distributed in Africa, Ethiopia, Sudan, countries such as Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia, living in tropical and subtropical Africa vast grasslands.Although only distributed in Africa, however, the giraffe's ancestral home is in Asia.