Animals pronounced in 3 syllables that contain K — full profile for each.
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The giraffe gazelle of East African thornbush — the gerenuk has an extraordinarily long neck and legs that allow it to stand bipedally on its hind legs to browse up to 2 metres high in acacia bushes; the only antelope that routinely stands on its hind legs to feed; a Somali name meaning giraffe-necked describes it precisely; unlike most antelopes, it never drinks water, obtaining all moisture from browse.
The largest living marsupial and Australia's emblematic animal, a powerful hopper that can clear 9 m in a single leap and travel 70 km/h across arid plains.
A golden, nocturnal rainforest mammal related to raccoons — it has a prehensile tail for gripping branches, an extraordinarily long tongue for extracting flower nectar (making it an important pollinator), and large dark eyes adapted for night vision; it sleeps in hollow trees by day and is one of the few carnivores that has adopted a largely frugivorous and nectarivorous diet.
A secretive forest giraffe of the Congo Basin — the only living relative of the giraffe, despite looking more like a striped horse, and completely unknown to Western science until 1901.
A South American monkey with a strikingly bare red face — health visible at a glance — that lives in flooded Amazonian forests and is among the most threatened primates in the Americas.
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