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3/5. How the Giraffe Got Its Neck. AlistairMcGowan asks how the giraffe got its long neck. For 200 years zoologists have assumed that it's to reach the top leaves of the trees. The real explanation, he learns, is rather less savoury. Producer Jolyon Jenkins

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