The giraffe’s tongue is long and mobile, up to 45 cm, allowing the Giraffe to precisely select food items. Although Giraffes drink when water is available, they can survive for a long time without water. In the north of the Namib Desert, observed Giraffes drinking twice during the course of six years of observation, and only ten times during a five-year study period. Giraffes seem to demonstrate a total lack of dependence on available bodies of water and get their water from preformed water in food and dew on the plants.
