Dancing Bees and Other Amazing Communicators

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A Pain in the Neck For a long time scientists believed giraffes were quiet because of their necks Researchers thought a giraffe’s long neck probably made it hard for the animal to make most vocal sounds An adult giraffe’s neck is about 6 feet 1 8 meters long Air has to travel a long way to get from a giraffe’s lungs to its mouth It takes a lot of effort to push air that far A long neck can also allow a giraffe to feed from high branches 6