Table of Contents A Tall Baby page 4 Safe with Mom page 10 Let's Eat page 16 out on the Grasslands page 22 Habitat in Focus page 28 Fun Facts page 29 Glossary page 30 further Reading page 31 Index page 32
A Tall Baby After fifteen months it is finally time A mother giraffe is ready to have her baby A baby giraffe is called a calf Giraffes usually have one calf at a time Sometimes they have twins This mother giraffe cleans her newborn calf
A newborn calf is about 6 feet 2 meters tall and weighs 220 pounds 100 kilograms That's about the size of a grown man A baby giraffe looks a lot like its parents It has a spotted coat two short horns and a stiff mane
