Tristan Fiser
Meg Parker
Summer 2023
An incredibly adapted herbivore, equipped for feeding from the most ferociously thorned trees
It’s always a hoot watching giraffe feed. Those dextrous lips that act almost independently of one another, result in the most comical puckered poses, but certainly get the job done – a twig stripped of its leaves or a single blade plucked deftly from between thorns. That curly black tongue that reaches almost 40 cm out of the giraffe’s mouth is matched by nothing except perhaps an elephant’s trunk… lady-like eyelashes teamed with whiskers an old man could boast about – what a combination. A feeding giraffe is indeed a sight to behold!