One of my best friend’s fathers owns Global Wildlife Center in Folsom, LA. It is basically exactly what the title says; it’s a wildlife preservation on a few hundred acres in the middle of no where. They have a mix of herbivores ranging from Reticulated Giraffes to Red Kangaroos to African Sulcata Tortoises to East African Crowned Crane to Grant’s Zebra to African Kudu. People can go on guided tours to meet the animals and feed them corn. My friend’s father lives on the property, so when she and I go to visit him we often go out on our own to pet some bison and wiggle the camel’s hump. The last time I was there one of the giraffes was having a baby. We missed the birth because it happened at 5 a.m. but we saw him about six hours later. He was already able to stand and walk for short amounts of time.
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| This is a picture I took at Global Wildlife Center. I think this one is name Sandee |
I was talking to one of the caretakers about the new baby and apparently it is pretty common for giraffes to die during birth because they have so far to fall their necks often break. A giraffe is born about 6.5 feet tall. Giraffes seem to be the ultimate example of evolution. They can reach the highest of leaves, but now their extreme high is working against them too. Can evolution go too far to where it’s working backwards?
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