How Did Giraffes Get Their Long Necks?

Author’s Details:
My name is Atreyee Halder and I study in Grade 4C, of Manthan School, Tellapur. I like to draw and colour pictures as well as writing

Once upon a time, there lived a family of giraffes which used to eat normal diet like humans. One day, a professor came to their house and saw some pigs in their yard telling the giraffes to be a little different from the rest of the animals.

Then the professor said to the giraffes, “The foods that you all like to eat come from trees. If you eat them, then you need not bother about the comments made by those smelly servants of yours. So what are you waiting for? Go and eat fresh fruits and vegetables from the trees.”

Without any further thoughts, the giraffes ran to the nearest trees and climbed on them. But the trees did not have any fruits or vegetables on them. “That professor lied to us! There aren’t any fruits or vegetables on these trees, except for some wet leaves,” a young giraffe complained.

“Well, it seems to me that these are not actually trees, but are giant broccoli plants and we love to eat them! Since it is hard for us to share the broccolis, each one of us could go to a different plant and can start eating them. I am going to eat this broccoli plant, which is on my right”, said an old giraffe, to the rest of the family, pointing towards a lush grown broccoli plant on his right.

The rest of the giraffes ran to find their own broccoli plants and started eating them. They ate them so quickly that they finished the plants in one gulp. In their hurry to eat quickly, the giraffes forgot to chew the broccolis thoroughly before swallowing them and so the broccolis choked them in their necks.

To get relief from the discomfort, the giraffes decided to rub their necks on the barks of the other trees. They stretched their necks so long to rub them on the barks thoroughly and by the time they were relieved of their choking, their necks had grown so long that they could not come back to their normal size again!

When the giraffe family went back to their farm, the pigs fainted on seeing their strange appearance. Since then, giraffes are believed to have long necks!

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