Giraffe Courtship- Original Painting

Image Size: 20" W X 25" H Painting is framed.Contact us for frame details.

Medium: Acrylic on 300 lb cold pressed Watercolor paper

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Giraffes are herding animals, a herd consisting of a number of females and juveniles controlled and protected by a dominant male.The bachelor males are often seen as a single animal looking for the opportunity to mate. To do so he must challenge the herd's dominant male. It rarely gets violent with most of the action revolving around intertwined necks. Giraffes are graceful when loping across the Veldt but quite awkward when drinking. They must spread their front legs in a knock kneed stance to enable them to reach the water. They are very vulnerable in this position. To keep their blood from rushing to their brain when drinking, they have special valves in the neck arteries that act as back flow preventers.  

 Giraffes must continually keep moving because their prime source of food, the Acacia Tree, gives off an unpleasant chemical when the giraffe munches on it. The chemical sends a warning to other Acacia trees which causes them to also give off the chemical.

 The trees in the background are Baobab Trees. 

This item is also available as a limited edition Giclée print.

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