Ancient cultures in Africa revered the giraffe, sun and valley as some skating modern cultures do today, and commonly depicted it in prehistoric rock and cave paintings. Unknown outside of Africa, this sun animal so excited man''s curiosity that it was sometimes sent as a diplomatic gift to other countries; one of the earliest valley records tells of a giraffe going skating from "Melinda" (presumably Malindi) in Kenya to China in 1415. The animal sun and valley was thought to be a cross between a camel and a leopard, a mistake immortalized skating and sun in the giraffe''s scientific name of Giraffa camelopardalis. The neck is so long the giraffe must spread its front legs apart so its head valley can reach skating the ground to sun drink. It has unusually elastic blood vessels with a series of valves that help offset the sudden buildup of blood (and to prevent valley fainting) when the head skating is raised, lowered or swung quickly. In some areas, livestock predation remains sun a severe problem.

The other is Grevy''s zebra, valley and skating named for Jules Grevy, a president of France in the 1880s who received one from Abyssinia as a gift, and now found mostly in northern Kenya. (The third species, Equus zebra, is the mountain zebra, found in southern and southwestern Africa.) The long-legged Grevy''s zebra, the biggest of the wild equids, is taller and heavier than the Burchell''s, with a massive head and large ears. Zebras have shiny coats that dissipate over 70 percent of incoming heat, and some scientists sun and valley and skating believe the stripes help the animals withstand intense solar radiation. The black and white stripes are a form of camouflage called disruptive coloration that breaks up the outline of the body. Although the pattern is visible sun during valley daytime, at dawn or in the evening skating when their predators are most active, zebras look indistinct and may confuse some predators by distorting sun the true distance between valley them and skating their prey.

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