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Description
Scientific name: Brachiosaurus altithorax
Diet: high-growing plants (at the Zoo plant matter is shipped to its enclosure three times a day)
Projected natural lifespan: 72 years
Length: 24 meters (~79 feet)
Weight: 35.9 tonnes (~38.6 tons)
Locality: Colorado, United States (Morrison Formation), 154 Ma (Late Jurassic Kimmeridgian)
Exhibit: Morrison Legends

About:
Brachiosaurus is a well known sauropod. Unlike most sauropods of its day, Brachiosaurus had longer fore limbs than hind limbs, meaning its head and neck were held up high instead of horizontal. This allowed it to reach vegetation that no other dinosaur can reach.

Description and behavior:
Like all sauropods, Brachiosaurus shows characteristics that are present in modern day lizards (such as being slender, scaly and somewhat lazy), those that are present in modern day elephants (such as being big, herbivorous and voracious), and those that are present in modern day giraffes. Of these three, Brachiosaurus' behaviors appears to be the most like a giraffe's. They mostly prefer forested areas, where they can get lots of food to eat. Their size is one of their weapons against attacking carnivorous dinosaurs. They also gather in herds from time to time, which are sorted by social hierarchy. This is determined by necking, wherein male individuals would slam their necks against each other. The winner becomes the dominant male. The dominant male gets the right to mate and raise their offspring.

At the Zoo:
The sauropod pen at Morrison Legends houses two Brachiosaurus, a female named Debra and a male named Khaki. He gets his name from his distinctive khaki coat.

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The behavior is inspired by lizards, elephants and giraffes.

The skeletal I used belongs to ScottHartman .

The mass estimate is scaled from Franoys ' chart: www.deviantart.com/franoys/art…

Description
Scientific name: Brachiosaurus altithorax
Diet: high-growing plants (at the Zoo plant matter is shipped to its enclosure three times a day)
Projected natural lifespan: 72 years
Length: 24 meters (~79 feet)
Weight: 35.9 tonnes (~38.6 tons)
Locality: Colorado, United States (Morrison Formation), 154 Ma (Late Jurassic Kimmeridgian)
Exhibit: Morrison Legends

About:
Brachiosaurus is a well known sauropod. Unlike most sauropods of its day, Brachiosaurus had longer fore limbs than hind limbs, meaning its head and neck were held up high instead of horizontal. This allowed it to reach vegetation that no other dinosaur can reach.

Description and behavior:
Like all sauropods, Brachiosaurus shows characteristics that are present in modern day lizards (such as being slender, scaly and somewhat lazy), those that are present in modern day elephants (such as being big, herbivorous and voracious), and those that are present in modern day giraffes. Of these three, Brachiosaurus' behaviors appears to be the most like a giraffe's. They mostly prefer forested areas, where they can get lots of food to eat. Their size is one of their weapons against attacking carnivorous dinosaurs. They also gather in herds from time to time, which are sorted by social hierarchy. This is determined by necking, wherein male individuals would slam their necks against each other. The winner becomes the dominant male. The dominant male gets the right to mate and raise their offspring.

At the Zoo:
The sauropod pen at Morrison Legends houses two Brachiosaurus, a female named Debra and a male named Khaki. He gets his name from his distinctive khaki coat.

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The behavior is inspired by lizards, elephants and giraffes.

The skeletal I used belongs to ScottHartman .

The mass estimate is scaled from Franoys ' chart: www.deviantart.com/franoys/art…