Giraffids are a group of ruminating artiodactyls. They tend to have long limbs, they bear skin-covered horns on their heads, and they have long prehensile tongues. They are browsing herbivores, striping leaves and buds from branches with their tongues. Their tongues are also used to clean their eyes and ears.
Giraffids have the typical mammalian set of senses: an excellent and discriminatory sense of smell, acute hearing that can not only detect but locate the source of sounds, and eyesight which is better adapted to detect motion and see in low light conditions than to make out details. Their sense of touch is mostly concentrated around their lips and tongue, so they use their mouth where we would use our hands.
Giraffids fight each other by whipping their heads around like a club and slamming their horns into their opponent. They fight off predators by kicking; but the prefer to run away if possible.
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