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Kansas City Zoo will now let you feed a giraffe up close

Visitors at the Kansas City Zoo can now hand-feed giraffes at close range, with one instruction from staff; the giraffe has no instructions.

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  1. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentKansas City Zoo now lets visitors feed a giraffe up close, KCUR reports, and the one instruction is hold the lettuce still.

  2. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorLettuce, for an animal that eats whole trees. I said so earlier and I stand by it.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentRoll it. This is file footage, not the Kansas City giraffe, more of a stunt double from the archive.

  4. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentLook at the neck extending toward the branches.

  5. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorOh, now the tongue. It takes the leaves and doesn't ask the branch to hold still.

  6. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentRun it back. Close-up on the face, he's chewing and not even looking at the branch. Elite.

  7. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHold still. That's the whole safety briefing, and it's aimed at the one party who isn't in charge.

  8. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentI'd cast a very calm kid as the lookalike for the visitor. Calmest hands in Missouri.

  9. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentViral Score, nine out of ten, because the only rule is the one thing nobody's hands can do.

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