It’s likely you have not seen giraffes like this because you won’t often catch giraffes sleeping. (Aside from me! 🙂 ) giraffes have the shortest sleep requirements of any mammal, needing around 30 minutes a day. Until about the 1950’s researchers thought that they never slept at all.
Because of it’s slowness in lying down and getting up the giraffe as a prey animal has evolved to protect itself by reducing it’s need for catching zzzz’s. Beautiful, exotic and amazing huh?
Do we have any other ‘giraffes’ amongst us, or are you the full-bodied 8 hours type?
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Oh to be a giraffe! I would just get so much done, needing lots of sleep is one of the design faults of humanity I would like to take God to task on! Beautiful post thanks
Oh amen to that! 😉 I say this all the time Andy!
Wow…that’s interesting…I surely can claim to be in the vicinity…cant sleep more than 5 hours at a stretch…no matter how tired
Today as it happens I stretched it all too far and literally keeled over! I had none of the normal warning signs like constant yawning and just blacked out and came to some time later wondering who I was, where I was and whose fault it all was! I blame you!
Hahaha…you DIDN’T!!!! It happens to me so often!!! Falling asleep on the computer table…and yes, no warning signs!! 😀
I did! I really should work for the UK government if this carries on. (They are always caught napping on camera).
LOL
I’m so not a giraffe, bit I’m no 8hour sleeper either. Although it’s getting closer to 8 hours as it gets hotter here in Hawaii. Hot weather just makes me want to roll back over and go right back to sleep!
Me and your climate would have to have serious words if I were there! Although the country’s beauty (on TV) would make up for that heat. Is it that lovely all over or just what we get to see?
I feel like most of it is just what you get to see. It is beautiful and all, but for the island of Oahu, Honolulu being “the must go to” destination for the Islands, you don’t see all the traffic and other parts of the island where it’s no different from other states, you have not so clean communities, you have some homeless, etc.
Ah, my vision shattered! 😉
Interesting!!! I did not know that!
There you go! 🙂
One of those random little secrets about nature that is deeply satisfying for no reason at all! Thanks
Ha ha! How true. 🙂
Such gorgeous piccies! I would make a rubbish Giraffe though, I am a solid eight hours a night girl else I am useless!
Then I am sorry. You may not enter the Giraffe Club. 🙂
Shame – it’s probably the closest I’d have come to being tall and leggy!!
Lols.
“Beautiful, exotic, amazing” and flexible! Makes my neck hurt just to look at them!
Doesn’t it ? 🙂 (You olive thrower!)
Growing up in Africa you’d think I’d know this. But noooo. Klutz! ok, one thing I do know, is that in the animal kingdom if there are ‘dem beeeitches’, they are super jealous of the giraffes super long sleek neck and those eyelashes! who needs wonderlash/bra/whatever you call it LOL…ooooh, they are to die for, and they are 100% natural. Love it!
I know right? I’m surprised doing a ‘giraffe’ isn’t the new thing in the fashion world!
I had no idea! What beautiful pictures. I have always said that I wish I didn’t need to sleep…there is so much that I would do…I suppose I’ve been wishing to be a giraffe all along!
Me too! 🙂
Incredible. 🙂
Hiya Nomzi!
Hiya dear. A little off topic but I love autumn. Do you love autumn? 🙂
A little random lol. Why do you ask?
Indeed lol. I remember that I was appreciating the day and the warmth and wondered if you were experiencing the same season. I wish you a good and peaceful week. 🙂
Well not quite lol as we seem to be having 4 seasons in one day as they say. But autumn crispness with the brown leaves and your nose slightly cold with the just slightly warm autumnal sun glowing can be lovely on a walk in the park with the dog. 🙂
For sure. Have a lovely day. 🙂
You too!
Thank you. 🙂
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Loved this, thank you 🙂
Hey Alan, you’re welcome! 🙂
they are so lovely, I thought they just popped their heads over a branch and dozed against a tree 🙂
I can see that! Their little heads hanging over the tallest branch to hold them up!
So cute!!! A long Long time ago, I used to be able to live on an hour or so of sleep… especially in college when I had papers to write and stuff! Now? forget it! I need as much as I can get, whenever I can get it! I’m so old! hahaha
You ancient thing! 🙂 Cup of warm cocoa coming up!
hehehe… aww..thanks 🙂
😀
These are terrific. Never saw a sleeping giraffe before today. My education is advancing rapidly. Thanks for sharing. I think I’ll pass this one on to my Facebook friends.
My work here is done. 🙂
I might be an 8 hour sleeper or more… But I hate to sleep, there are things dark and dangerous there. Creatures that consume you from the inside out, that chase you and can see you gaze at them through the cracks in a fence. Giant earwigs that fly on bird’s wings and make chitinous sound while they consume what they catch. … No, bad place to be. They await…
I want the name of your supplier, like now!
I was taught that giraffes do not have gall bladders
Well…there you go lol!
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No, I didn’t.
Aha! 🙂
Just last week, I took my granddaughter to a zoo where she had the wonderful experience of hand-feeding a piece of lettuce to a giraffe–and the curator mentioned that giraffes need much less sleep (and hence, are much more entertaining) than other exotic animals. These are amazing photos
Ah, lucky kid! I haven’t been to a zoo in years and the last time I went I was driver and had to keep checking the meter (car was parked 600 miles away) and missed all the biggies like the lions and giraffes.
Much as I don’t entirely agree with zoos per se, I would love to feed a beautiful giraffe!
Hilarious! If I looked like that when I slept I’d probably sleep less too 🙂 As it is I like to get a nice round nine hours. OK, nine isn’t round, but it is square.
I’m going to have to take issue with your nine being square also…not that I’m pedantic. 🙂
Nine is three squared. (I had to check this with my husband the mathematician; he assures me this is the case.)
Oh if we’re doing this on a mathematical tip count me out. Totally useless at most things. But my favourite thing to be useless at is maths.
Yeah, I dropped maths as soon as it was legal. But then I married a mathematician, so maths is back in my life again :-S
Lol. As long as I can do some shopping and add up in negotiations I’m okay 🙂
Beautiful, exotic and amazing. Yes.
Thanks Sheila.