Giraffe up. The calf emerges head and front legs first, having broken through the fetal membranes, and falls to the ground, severing the umbilical cord. The mother then grooms the newborn and helps it stand up. A newborn giraffe is tall. Within a few hours of birth, the calf can run around and is almost indistinguishable from a one-week-old. However, for the first 1–3 weeks, it spends most of its time hiding; its coat pattern providing camouflage. The ossicones, which have lain flat while it was in the womb, become erect within a few days. Mothers with calves will gather in
Giraffe (novel) if Radiohead's 'Idioteque' had mixed with something by Haruki Murakami." The "New York Times" critic was "continually reminded of Harold Bloom's remark about all great books being strange." According to one of the novel's publishers, Penguin Press, ""Giraffe" marks the debut of an unforgettable talent... At once vivid and unearthly, "Giraffe" is a meditation on suffering, on the strangeness of vertical creatures, and on the inhabitants of a middling totalitarian state, sleepwalking through the ‘communist moment’." Giraffe (novel) Giraffe is a debut novel by Scottish writer J. M. Ledgard. "Giraffe" is based on a true Czechoslovakian story, which Ledgard discovered