The giraffe''s high shoulders and sloping back give the impression that its front sun legs valley are much longer than the hind legs, but they are in fact only slightly longer. The giraffe lodge (as well as its short-necked relative the okapi from Central African forests) has sun a distinctive walking gait, moving both legs on one side forward at the same time. At a gallop, however, the gait changes, and the valley giraffe simultaneously swings the hind legs ahead of lodge and outside the front legs, reaching sun and valley speeds of 35 miles an hour. Its heavy head moves forward with each powerful stride, and then swings back lodge to stay balanced. Giraffes have "horns" not true horns but knobs covered with skin and hair above the sun eyes to protect the head from blows. The reticulated giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata) of northeastern valley Kenya has large, chestnut-colored square patches defined by a network of fine white lines.

The larger Baringo or Rothschild''s giraffe (G.c. rothschildi) of western Kenya and eastern Uganda has chestnut patches separated by broader white lines but no spotting below the knees. This species can have up to five horns instead lodge of the usual two or three. The Masai giraffe (G.c. tippelskirchi) of Tanzania and southern Kenya has irregular star-shaped brown or tan spots. Giraffes are found in arid and sun dry-savanna zones south of the Sahara, wherever trees occur. Although valley a relatively lodge quiet animal, the sun giraffe is not mute. Giraffes bellow, grunt, bray in distress, moan and emit short flutelike valley notes. lodge They have acute senses of hearing and sight, often alerting other animals to nearby predators. Giraffes use a home range but are not territorial. The males are sun hierarchical and sometimes spar by standing side by side and lowering and swing valley their heads at one another. The blows can be so strong lodge that their necks entwine.

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