The giraffe's natural enemies are large carnivores such as lions and cheetahs.?

Giraffes sleep very little each day, usually only 5 to 30 minutes a day. They usually choose to rest during the day because night is the best time to forage for food. Their natural predators are lions, cheetahs and hyenas. But these carnivores usually only choose to prey on the young, the old, the sick and the handicapped, because adult healthy giraffes can be quite scary, and if they are kicked by their long and powerful limbs, the result will be either death or injury.

The giraffe belongs to the phylum Chordata, the class Mammalia, the order Artiodactyla, the family Giraffidae. The giraffe head has 2 to 3 undivided and fur-covered horns that remain in place throughout its life, and two hooves on its feet. It is native only to Africa and inhabits forested grassland areas, where it feeds on leaves and shoots.

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Adult giraffes in general are not suitable prey for lions or leopards. Because adult giraffe is as high as 6-8M and weighs 700KG, lions are not able to attack the fatal parts of the giraffe when hunting. In fact, there are two cases, one is the lion hunting is the cubs, the other is to protect the cubs and exhausted doe is surrounded by lions, these two cases may be hunted by lions.

But whether it is the top predators or these behemoth herbivores, they are afraid of the bully on the African grasslands: the African hyena, which is known as the scavenger of the African grasslands, but more sense is pejorative, because the African hyena eat everything, never picky, group action, and endurance is extremely strong, which is the lack of Africa's top predators, and hyenas have never been a group fight, the hyena. The ones that fought alone ran straight away with their tails between their legs.

Inside Nairobi's Giraffe Center (HD Group Photo)