Sticking Your Neck out.(giraffes do talk)

Jack & Jill | April 1, 2000 | Copyright

Long thought the strong, silent type, giraffes are turning out to be very talkative.

That's the discovery of animal behaviorist Elizabeth vonMuggenthaler, who set out recently to test the old notion that giraffes are nearly voiceless.

"They're not," she says. "They're actually talking all the time, just below our hearing range; we can't hear it."

In tests at the North Carolina Zoological Park over the last three years, vonMuggenthaler and her co-researcher Randy Fulk have been audio-taping giraffes as the animals go about their daily business of ...

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