Not many people know much about giraffes, they are one of the species that most people think of as the animal with long necks and tongues, tall legs, and brown spots. This may be true but giraffes have much more to offer than their appearance. The giraffe is put into a certain taxonomic group; this group is called Giraffa Camelopardalis (Gotch, 1995). It is widely accepted in the scientific community that there are nine subspecies of Giraffa Camelopardalis, but there is an ongoing debate on whether these subspecies are actually different enough to be separate species on their own. So far the evidence has not proven that these subspecies are actually separate species (Patterson, 2007). Giraffes are the tallest of all land animals, the males