George the Giraffe

Investigative guides which reveal amazing facts about members of the animal kingdom.

This episode features George, a giraffe who lives with his family on the wide open grasslands of the East African savannah. George is one of a herd of Masai giraffes in Kenya. He is four weeks old, still a baby, but already two metres tall. He started life with a two-metre drop, but within 15 minutes he was up on his feet. Giraffes are the tallest animals in the world and males grow up to five metres high.

Amongst trees, they are well camouflaged and whatever the type, all giraffes love eating leaves. One giraffe can eat 34kg of leaves a day using a highly flexible tongue which is as long as a man's forearm and well suited to the job. However, having a long neck is not always easy as George finds out when he's learning to drink.