Giraffes: The Forgotten Giants FULL SPECIAL | PBS America
Giraffes: The Forgotten Giants FULL SPECIAL | PBS America
An exciting look at scientist trying to solve the last pieces of code about how giraffes communicate. Meet giraffes living in the wild in Africa and in captivity in North America, as well as the scientists who are tracing the life cycle of the grand animals from birth to death. #PBSAmerica #GiraffesTheForgottenGiants #Giraffes
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Giraffes, camels and cats are the only three mammals that walk with the same foot on each side together.
I’ve never heard of the giraffe so this looks like AI CGI.
We always hear here and there about these gentle giants, but it never really occured to me to learn more about them.
Cool
At a zoo near me a few years ago they did not have a high fence around the giraffes and a kid was standing and looking at one and the giraffe reached over and grabbed the kid and brought it into its enclosure and stomped it to death. Nobody knows why because the kid was not teasing it.
When I hit a Giraffe my insurance said that Safari animals are not covered under Comprehensive or Collision.
God's Grand Design
God's Beautiful and Wondrous Creation ❤ 🦒🦒 ✝️
Giraffes are so cool and kinda majestic. Their tounge is tough like leather so it can get around thorns when they eat leaves. When they bend down to drink they are at their most vulnerable. Their babies are adoreable but really vulnerable to predators. I love it when the males fight to win the right to mate. I really hope Giraffes will be around for a long long time. Just like the elephants they're disappearing from the wild at a alarming rate. Hopefully they can get their population back up to a stable rate again.
Lions kill their calves
I love giraffes
Wild life is important but humans are more important bc God said so go preach the gospel of Christ to the people.instead of what your sayng that will give our brothers and sisters in Christ eternal life with God
they can be saved if people will stop breeding like lemmings
Thank you for this wonderful look into giraffes lives. ❤
The animal life on this planet Earth is wondrous. Cherish and protect it at all cost. Animals are us. Just in different shape and form.
They're such beautiful and fascinating creatures.❤
Special Extended Edition Comment: 1:14, 4:21 & 15:12–15:16 Zebras! Grevy’s Zebras.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could find away to attach “body-cam” sort of thing, almost like chip that contains info about the animal? A camera system either attached to the body of the giraffe itself, with at least a 180 degree of self manipulated range? Or cameras attached high in a high place where groups of giraffes usually get together (tree perhaps) that not only get info on the giraffe itself, but also record the presence of other animals (lions perhaps) and most of all poachers! Why can’t female giraffes be darted and inseminated in the field? That way increase the numbers of giraffes right where their mother will protect, feed and teach it what it needs to know to survive.
My question has always been and will always be. Why are we trying to communicate with animals?
Why can't we just observe their beauty and go on? Why are we wasting money doing this? White people got f**** issues.
Everybody don't know the metric system. Can you do it in feet and inches?
Please help and protect them all before it's too late..!!!🙏🙏🙏
Fantastic documentary! I like the title because I, even as a retired science teacher, do not think about giraffes when thinking about wild animals in Africa. They are the forgotten animal. This documentary answered questions about giraffes that I hadn't even thought of! I now raise goats (Kikos), but I never thought about how many stomachs a giraffe would have. It is absolutely fascinating. Thank you for so much information.
Grifaffs are just fascinating I love them they are a beautiful animal from God❤❤❤❤
"Even though she managed o get to South Africa, she still faced discrimination" – what a poor choice of words.
Please always remember that historically people in Africa just like First Nations & Native Americans always stewarded their wildlife and the reduction in numbers after the colonization. In Zimbabwe each family would adopt an animal as their totem and that animal was now supposed to be protected and not hunted for food. So you can imagine that almost every wild animal had protection by all Zimbabweans. This example shows that those native to the lands have the wisdom on how to preserve their wildlife- so it’s wise to ask for their advice too.
About to read “West with Giraffes” & thought I’d watch a vid on them!
I hope they don’t go extinct – they are such beautiful, gentle, elegant creatures
Sad loosing this beautiful animals
This is a wonderful documentary honoring and educating us on these amazing and beautiful girraffe’s. Thank you
She faced discrimination… not so much as the majority black population at that time. I guess she did not think about the social environmentshe studied these giraffes in.
I find it very patronising that Westerners think they can teach Africans about their own environments. Africans have lived peacefully with our wildlife. Colonialism came and that's when the troubles started.Most animals were nearly hunted to extinction. India is another case in point.The
Please stick to what you know, not your evolutionary theory.
1) it is fascinating that they communicate in a low frequency that we can detect. I find that quite amazing. Makes me wonder if there are others, like elephants that have additional communication like that that we haven't discovered yet.
2) it seems very short-sighted for people to have assumed giraffes are poor mothers. Deer often hide their babies so they can go eat. It isn't like we've never seen this concept before. I haven't googled it to be sure, but MOST mammals are great parents.
3) I love that they have a daycare for sharing the baby care. 💜
This is my first Giraffe documentary that was made especially for Giraffe.. tha k you!❤❤❤
It irks me that you ruin a wonderful documentary by talking about millions and billions of years.
THE EARTH IS NOT THAT OLD.
…. Jingleheimer Schmidt