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Giraffes browse. They are near-perfect browsing machines. They can reach parts of trees that no other land-based herbivore can reach. They can reach tips of branches that most arboreal herbivores cannot reach. And sometimes they browse on the most thorny trees, such as this Acacia in South Africa.