Interesting question – I didn’t know the answer, so I looked it up. Firstly, I should note that the common cold can actually be caused by a number of different infectious diseases, such as rhinovirus, coronavirus, adenovirus and influenza. As far as I can tell, giraffes can get infectious diseases, but it doesn’t look like the cold is among them. It might be just because we haven’t found it yet though!
Whilst I was in South Africa I did once see a giraffe sneeze although it was a very hot day so I would have been surprised it was because it had a cold. As Bethany says giraffes can pick up infections but I too am struggling to find out if they get a cold. Maybe you should ring up the local zoo to find out.
I looked this up too and couldn’t find anything about giraffes getting colds so maybe we just don’t know yet. I expect they do get some kinds of viruses – all animals do.
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