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heads of which the giraffe can feed when looking down- 

 wards. He can, if he likes, feed on the grass at his feet, 

 but he has to straddle his front legs into an attitude so 

 exceedingly uncomfortable that I expect he usually 

 regards a vegetable which only grows a few inches high as 



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beneath his notice. In any case the food cropped by the 

 tongue, aided by the lower incisors, is masticated by the 

 strong grinding teeth, which wear down so as to give a 

 crescentic pattern, the crescents being marked out in hard 

 enamel, within and between which is the softer dentine. 

 This crescentic pattern is characteristic also of the cattle 



