Giraffe, Giraffe How Tall Are You Again?

In my class population, we have been talking about many different things including the dichotomous key, set theory, taxonomy, and morphological characteristic of our organisms. In which those are mostly how you would separate different connections between groups to different parts in it. About a week ago my class and I dissected a "lubber grasshopper", we looked in the inside and the outside of the body. We did lots of creative things but towards my project, I hope you enjoy it.

The organism that I researched is a Southern Giraffe, the habitat of this organism usually live in savannahs and woodlands where food and plants are available. The average height for a southern giraffe is about 14 to 19 feet and weighs in about 1,750 to 2,800 pounds. In the wild, they primarily eat leaves, twigs of acacia, mimosa, and wild apricot trees but mostly plants opposed to animals and different organisms. The behavior on this animal is it sometimes battle one another by butting their long necks and heads. Such contests aren't usually dangerous and end when one animal submits and walks away.

TG. Zoo Giraffe. 2019

SW. Giraffe Collage. 2019.

 

SW. Giraffe GIF. 2019.

TAXONOMY:

1. Kingdom: Animalia: multi-cellular

2. Phylum: Chordata: nerve cord, endostyle

3. Class: Mammalia: Reproducing, milk for feeding young

4. Order: Artiodactyl: even-toed a hoofed mammal, some toes are present, absent, vestigial or pointing posteriorly

5. Family: Giraffidae: a family of a ruminant; artiodactyl mammals that share a common ancestor

6. Genus: Giraffa: nine subspecies.

7. Species: Cameloparadilis: proposed species of giraffe native to Southern Africa

Set Theory comparing my animal & my classmate's animals together.
A = Fennec fox
B = Colobus monkey
C =  Southern Giraffe

A = {Omnivore, 2-5 kits per litter, 10-year life span, 8 in height}
B = {Lies in the jungle, Flat-Faced, sleeps at night, 1.5-2 ft height}
C = {Lives on their own stands to sleep, don't have motherly instincts}

A⋂B = {Live with others, lay down when sleeping}
A⋂C = {Lives in Desert, Muzzled, nocturnal}
B⋂C = {Colours darken over time, herbivore has one child at a time}

A⋂B⋂C = {Kingdom\Phylum\Class are the same, Quadruped, Has a tail, African}

Set Theory Word Form:
A: neck 6 feet, weighs 600 lb
B: sleep 30 min day, 20 min less a day
C: 75lbs of food per day, 34 kilograms
D: $40,000-$80,000 cost

Venn Diagram:

SW. Venn Diagram. 2019.

This Venn diagram shows the relationship between all 3 animals and separates, a group where one diagram overlaps another in which they have a relationship with each other. To those sets, they are specifically towards the behavior of the animal-based on how you view it and what features do we have in common and what features are different. We divided it into A,B that mostly have the same features to D as different.

Overall, the experience was good. I feel like I learned a lot during this AP and FE. One thing I didn't know how the set theory operated and how the traits of an animal can be ordered in mathematical form. I also didn't know the taxonomy of any animal.