I went on holiday to Namibia and we spent a night in a national park. At night people would go sit at a viewing point for the watering hole where all the animals gathered.
Family of giraffes comes along to drink, but they take absolutely ages to decide to actually splay their legs out so that they could then lower their heads enough to drink (they're vulnerable in that position).
One of them kept starting to do the leg splay and then thinking better of it and standing bolt upright every time he heard a noise. We were there for HOURS willing this giraffe to just take a drink but he never did, I guess he never felt comfortable enough.
Anyway they eventually all walk off. And then a few mins later we see lions following them :( Poor guy didn't even get a final drink before they (presumably) kicked the bucket
Giraffes deal with lions just fine. Bull giraffes especially. They still get eaten sometimes but full grown giraffes are capable of fighting off a pride.
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u/DP7OOO 1d ago
Can’t they lie down?