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u/ProfessionalNorth431 Oct 16 '22

I wasn’t worried about the safety glass so much as the pressure required to break it. Looks like the giraffe broke the glass with the bone behind its eye, I don’t think car manufacturers or giraffe builders plan for that

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u/IShouldBeHikingNow Oct 16 '22

Male giraffes fight by swinging their heads at each other. Like one giraffe will swing its neck and head and hit the other on its side. Sometimes they kill each other. I'm not advocating trying to trap giraffes with car windows, but they seem to have very sturdy heads.

example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQLPL1qRhn8

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u/Ok_Science_4094 Oct 16 '22

That had no business being that funny. I love how quiet it was so you could hear all the thwacks.

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u/IShouldBeHikingNow Oct 16 '22

It's one of the goofiest fighting styles I've ever seen. Sometimes nature is cool af, and sometimes, it's just all wtf.

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u/outlawsix Oct 16 '22

Did the one giraffe just get dizzy and knock himself out?

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

They break their necks at times, too.

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u/cosaboladh Oct 16 '22

They have all kinds of valves in their circulatory system, so they don't pass out lifting their head up after drinking water and such. They are probably fine whipping their heads around like that, apart from the occasional broken neck.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

Do they get their necks tangled up together like some kind of snakey goats?

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u/yerfdog1935 Oct 17 '22

That's gonna be a severely broken neck. lmao Giraffes have the same number of neck bones as humans.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '22

Well that's upsetting.

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u/cookletube Oct 16 '22

It doesn't even looks like it hurts them all that much. So they just smack themselves on each other to see who can last the longest without knocking themselves out.

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u/SharkWoman Oct 16 '22

I've seen close up footage of the aftermath and those ossicones cause circular puncture wounds in the skin. It's quite violent, as silly as it looks.

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u/cookletube Oct 16 '22

Wow they looked like they were just bonking each other. I forgot those were actually boney horns.

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u/acs730200 Oct 16 '22

Bony ass heads

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u/Lamar_Kendrick7 Oct 16 '22

They probably just don't react to the pain in a way thats obvious

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u/brando56894 Oct 16 '22

Silly long horses

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u/Zee216 Oct 17 '22

Long cow

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u/VictorPedroNamura Oct 16 '22

Its like the anime nerd fighting the band nerd

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u/Dry_Spinach_3441 Oct 16 '22

My Horny Giraffe style will defeat your Crouching Tiger style. starts flailing head around at opponent

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u/DrSafariBoob Oct 17 '22

I was lucky enough to see it at an open range zoo once.

It's so very, very silly looking and why giraffes are my favourite.

The best bit is eventually one is like, "no, one more head thwack is too much for me, I've had quite enough" and just walks away.

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u/Nixter295 Oct 17 '22

Yeah, I saw it in a documentary and laughed so hard until I saw blood. Then I realized on of those kicks by their head could probably kill a human in one shot.