Giraffe
£2.40
A humorous greeting card featuring a giraffe, with the words ‘We’re going to need a bigger card’.
– Blank inside for your own message
– Printed in the UK on premium card stock
– Supplied with a white envelope
In stock
Description
Giraffe
A humorous greeting card featuring the neck of a giraffe, with the words ‘We’re going to need a bigger card’.
Giraffe, or ‘fast walker’, is a biological marvel.
Picture a giraffe standing in the midday sun. It can do so without wilting because the dark patches are criss-crossed by large blood vessels that radiate the heat back into the air.
It sleeps in short five-minute bursts througout the day and not more than half an hour in total. In those waking hours eating over 60kg of acacia leaves.
Giraffes have an huge muscle that runs from the top of their heads, down the back of their necks and down their backs. The muscles act like a huge elastic band to keep the giraffe’s neck up. When they bend down, the muscle compresses and springs back when they lift their heads.
And the reason they don’t they faint when they lift their heads on their long necks is because the thick skin on their legs act like compression bandages preventing blood from collecting in their legs.
SKU: C0044