By the fourth giraffe, it would be able to reach the leaves due to its extended neck length, which has changed over multiple generations.
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The non-breeding colours are similar, but the intermediate is smaller, with neck length a little less than body length, a slightly domed head, and a shorter, thicker bill.
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:Just flipping through some of the various bird field guides on my shelf, I'd say overall "'body size + relative neck length "'are the obvious differences.
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But evolutionary history shows that increased neck length is not correlated to increases in other parts of the body, which would be expected from foraging selection, so sexual selection may be a more satisfactory explanation.
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But some fair managers say traditional livestock shows _ with their arcane talk of shading and neck length _ are hopelessly outmoded anyway, providing far more information than " nonfarm visitors " want to hear.
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This was the longest neck known until the description of " Supersaurus ", based on a single neck vertebra, BYU 9024, with an estimated neck length of about 14 meters ( 46 feet ).
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:: All guitars are pretty different, a steel-string acoustic guitar is much different than a classical guitar for example, and steel-string guitars have lots of variations in neck length and string size and the shape of the soundbox.
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A few centimeters of extra leg length making it easier to reach higher branches, a few centimeters of neck length allow the animals to drink from shallower pools, a little extra heart capacity allowing for longer life and increased breeding success as pumping the blood higher put more of a strain on the organ.
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He insisted that it kept the powder burning in the case rather than in the throat of the rifle, as well as prevented case stretching and neck thickening . " Shoulder angle ranks along with primer, powders, bullets, neck length, body taper, loading density and all those other features, " he wrote . " The . 22 Varminter seems to have a perfectly balanced combination of all desirable features and is not just an old cartridge pepped up with new powders ."
