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This is the monthly journal of Nuru the Rothschild Giraffe. Follow along as he reveals his journey...
May Journal Entry
"These strange creatures are fixated on me. The rolling box in which they sit has come to a stop. The oxpecker stops cleaning the back of my neck almost as if to say, 'keep moving, these ones can be dangerous'. But they don't look dangerous to me. They keep raising some sort of device which makes fast paced clicks. My new lady friend, Adin, seems more casual about the situation and continues to munch on her preferred lower portions of acacia. I guess if she's not alarmed, then I shouldn't be either. I take a mouthful from the top branches of the tree..."
Nuru and Adin's Ecological Impact: By browsing acacia trees, they stimulate the tree's development of leaf nector. This nector is preferred by C. mimosa, a kind of ant that acts to protect the tree from excessive foraging. Without the giraffes, the trees produce less nectar, and the ants are replaced by a different kind of ant, C. sjostedti, as well as the stem-boring long-horned beetles, which are detrimental to the trees.
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