Giraffe are browsers and mainly eat leaves and buds on trees and shrubs. They will also eat herbs, climbers and vines, and prefer flowers and fruit when in season. The proportion of grass in their diet is very low. Acacia leaves and shoots form the bulk of a giraffeâs diet in most areas.
Picassoâs painting is based on the events of April 27, 1937, when Hitlerâs powerful German air force, acting in support of Franco, bombed the village of Guernica in northern Spain, a city of no strategic military value. It was historyâs first aerial saturation bombing of a civilian population.
World traveler. When the fair ended, the Spanish Republican forces sent Guernica on an international tour to create awareness of the war and raise funds for Spanish refugees. It traveled the world for 19 years and then was loaned for safekeeping to The Museum of Modern Art in New York.