Stephen wrote:
> I had the good fortune (I think) to be able stand beside it and stroke it.

The tongues are actually exceptionally slimey. :-)  Or maybe that was just 
because they were drooling because we were feeding them.

Orchid XP v8 wrote:
 > Of course, the really worrying thing about a giraffe is that it can
 > apparently eat bushes encrusted with murderous spines without any injury...

That's because they use their tongues to pick the leaves, much like you 
could pick berries off a holy bush without too much trouble.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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