1 July 2009 - After the elephant orphanage, we went to the Giraffe Park. Visitors climb onto this platform that puts them at head-height with the giraffes. Everyone is allowed to take up to two handfuls of food pellets to feed the giraffes with. One fun pastime is to place a particularly long pellet between your lips. Then, a giraffe comes and takes the pellet from your mouth, effectively "kissing" you in the process. Needless to say, their tongues are bigger than ones lips, so you typically get slobbered. But it's fun all the same!
The caretakers at the park are quick to inform visitors that giraffe saliva has antibacterial properties to it as well as UV protection. This is how God naturally protects them from pokes they get while eating acacia leaves and from sunburn while they use their long tongues to forage for food.
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