It is said that many males exceed 5.5 m in height.

A record height for a giraffe in a UK zoo was 5.8 m, but the tip of his horns was said to have reached close to 6.1 m.

So 6 m is about in this ballpark.

How many bananas?

And under the French cost is an African swallow.

Let’s see. 2 cm of grass on top of, say, 10 cm of earth would make the height of a football field 12cm. That would make it as high as about 50 football fields.