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>>4991417
They're biiiiig~

if i think about giraffes too hard i get spooked by the realization of just how alien they look. they're like horses but all wrong.

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>>4991535
all giraffids look alien as fuck

>>4991417
Their ear nerve goes all the way down their neck and back up
>>4991488
Woah

>>4991535
I think you mean horses are like giraffes but all wrong

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>>4991488

>>4991488
Would

>>4991870
Would HOW?

>>4991417
Imagine if they could thwop their necks around fast enough to generate lift and could fly like helicopters.

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>>4992220
with a ladder

>>4991417
he toll

>>4992235
Look closer, I see teats.

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They're scary

>>4993003
Giraffe about to practice when she and I will meet in my bedroom someday~~

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Crazy this is how they do it

>>4994337
My cousin used to do this as a summer job, he had a bad fall off the ladder one day. He aint been quite right since.

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>>4994343
>he had a bad fall
Pfft. Sure thing. Thats the government reprograming at work. The actual truth is that he got too close to the nose and saw the truth inside.
Inb4 glowies ban me for spilling the beans.

>>4994355
delet this at once

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Why are Giraffes so freaky?

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>page 10
It's over.

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>>4991417

>>4993003
>>4996971
>got bricked from this
Fuck its actually over for me

>>4996971
why do they suck poles?

>>4997174
Kek
>>4991417
I used to be obsessed with these big bastards as a kid, my grandma thought it was cute, and now her house is filled with giraffe-related art. Whenever I went to her house, I used to always go to the zoo with her to feed the giraffes.

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What now little man?

>>4997418
My giantess giraffe wife

>>4994355
Did it swallow that lion? I read a story on a furry site about that once.

>>4997418
I read this in the TF2 heavy voice.

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>>4994843
gimme carrot

>>4998502
>Gimme carrot but don't you try to fool me with zucchini

https://africageographic.com/stories/towering-intellect-how-scientists-discovered-that-giraffe-can-use-statistical-reasoning/

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>>4999086
No way Giraffes are that smart

>>4999086
pretty sure dogs cats and even rats have done this, just not in a controlled laboratory. both my dog and my cat could do this with treats (but only my big dogs could consistently prefer a larger treat to a smaller one and act peeved over a treat being broken in half)

waste of grant money

>>5000389
Funny, my dog like her treats broken, maybe she thinks I'm actually giving her more.

>>5000397
your dog might be stupid. mine will tolerate it but act more stubborn if they only get a half treat and always picks bigger treats over smaller ones.

can your dog do the statistical reasoning test? use kibble and cheese.

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>>4998502

>>4991417
I have had a giraffe picture on the front door to my bedroom for over a decade now.

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>>5001360
Post pic or you lie

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>>5000368
Yes we are

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The swiss army knife of the animal kingdom
>Grabs everything.
>Rasp being able to clean branches from leaves.
>Crusher / press strong enough against acacia thorns.
>Probably able to detect wind (like you lick your finger to know where the wind is blowing), so they don't go the wrong way eating acacia.
>Urine test to find out if the female is pregnant, in heat, too young, too old.
>Probably more.

>>4997182
Same reason I suck poles.

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>>4991417

>>4994843
Its head is so big wtf

Has anyone rode a giraffe?

>>5004029
GIRAFFE RIDAAAAAA!

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>>4993003
>>4996971

>>4993003
>>4996971
>>5004260
Seriously, what purpose does this serve?

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>>5005357
Sharpening their tongues?
>>5003413

>>5005817
What a cutie

>>4991535
All ungulates are horses but wrong

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>>4994456

>>4999086
I don't think they're over-thinking it
They just see that one box looks more "carroty" than the other one, like it looks more like food
So that's the box they're interested in
They're not thinking in terms of sampling individual items

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There are a lot of giraffe tongue pics online.

>>4996780
Don't give up.

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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Uasf1vDUObY

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explain this liberals

>>5010918
The big guy sticking his neck out for the little guy.

>>5011383
What'd they do to piss him off?

>>5011477
Asked him how the weather was.

>>4997174
>bricked

>>5011541
I guess he was under the weather.
Or rather, OVER.

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>>5004029

>>4991561
>Their ear nerve goes all the way down their neck and back up
Proof for the theory of Unintelligent Design!

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Too nutty.

>>5009174
What an eldritch and lovecraftian image

>>5009174
>red health bar with name appears at the bottom

>>5014524
>>5014526
Bad attempts to kill a giraffe.
And that one fucker like he was Goku with 10 tons of weight on arms and legs. Afaik the lions had to retreat cause it was too much waste of energy to put it down.

>>5014524
What can a giraffe actually do though? If you hug its hind legs it can't reach you with its hooves, and its too sluggish to get away while you repeatedly bite it from behind. If you stand to the side of its hind legs then it won't even be able to hit you with a back kick. If it raises its leg to perform a stomp then all you have to do is back off until it finishes its slam, then move back in to continue chomping.

>>5010681
The neck slapping is really funny

>>5014526
KWAB

>>5015324
I know this is just the elephant copypasta retooled but I just want to point out giraffe legs are super flexible and it'd have no problem kicking to the side

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>>4991870
Thanks, anon-sama!

>>5016236
Imagine putting her down for a broken leg

>>4993003
>>5004260
>>5005357
>>5005817
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cribbing_(horse)

>>4993168
youre mentally ill

>>5016236
>Giraffe girl
>Neck isn't long
Get this trash outta here

Did you know that eighty-percent of giraffes are gay. I’m serious. They mount males more than females, and can be seen sucking metal poles at zoos. Some are known to sit on upright logs (apes do this too).

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enter

>>5017407
Some people would say giraffes don't understand the concept of homosexuality. Some others would say everything that humans defined should be applied to animals because we're so top of the food chain, we're the chosen ones and because of le God.

I still want a gay giraffe bf in my bed.

>>5016415
Copium.

>>5017407
>look it up
>it’s true
Oh no

>>5017493
What are these things? horses or tapirs?

>>5020325
Read the file name stinky

>>5020711
I know that dopey, I'm asking what family they're in and don't say giraffe

>>5020781
Giraffe, stinky. Okapis belong to the Giraffidae family, of which they and giraffes are the only members.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi

>>5022222
Nice quints
Why so sad?

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>>5022712
thinking bout thos leaves

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>>5022837

>>5022837
I wish I was a leaf, so giraffes would think about me.

>>5014524
I have no idea if that animal is soon to die or completely chilling.

>>5017407
They all look the same so it's not surprising

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>>5025912
Looks like Giraffe Manor, Nairobi, Kenia.

Would love to have honey moon there. But it's 1) fucking expensive even for Swiss people and 2) I still don't have a mate to marry.

>>5025912
What a lucky gal

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shhhhh

>>4997182
The inside of their mouths are itchy

>>5033466
Injury?

>>5034384
Looks like a pressure sore.

>>5034384
I'm not a giraffe expert but doesn't look like it. just looks like pretty normal fur deformation on a knee.

>>5036845
>forgive me padre for I have sinned

>>4997174
bricked?

>>4992991
fake

>>5038452
nvm looked it up
i was like theres no way a giraffe would smash into a car window nose-first at full force
but its head was in the car and THEN the retards rolled up the window
it shattered it while pulling back

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/science/giraffes-conservation-dna.html

It's been settled. There are four species of Giraffe in this world.
Many others are subspecies, some coat patterns just mean another eco-species (like G. giraffa rothschildii) and then there's the Okapi.

>>5039388
oops meant G. camelopardalis rothschildii which is actually a Northern Giraffe now.

>>4991555
Huh i didnt think Okapis were that big. Shouldnt be surprised tho.

>>5017407
Wtf i hate giraffes now

>>5004143
glorious mane

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>>4994843
Ah! I've been expecting you

>>4991555
I like the nigga with the bowl on his head. makes me think of that one pokemon

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>>5041307

>>5034816
1950s dad smoking a pipe

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So I was in a zoo yesterday. Okapis are mysterious yet gorgeous animals.

>>5043873
Me in the back of the smaller raffes

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I STARVE! GIVE ME THE CHILD!

>>5042579
I see it

>>5044584
Do not.

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>>5045650
I can't wait to eat human flesh

>>4996971
Yeah girl. Get that nut. Earn it.

What does giraffe taste like?

>>5048949
Depends where you taste it

>>5048952
Stop that.

>>5011760
Nothing like a relaxing evening at the poker table chatting with your opponents about riding a giraffe.

Next time I'd invite Knuckles.

>>4991417
I never noticed how nice their fur pattern is before

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This is Puzzles the giraffe. He’s a pretty cool guy

>>5051963
Something tells me, it was an artist called Kadath who named the giraffe.

>>5013180
imagine being expected to walk on stilts just after your birth

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>>5051965
Derp

>>4992220
A deep hole
>SV RPS

>>5053458
You underestimate how big the world is. Even an hour walk from where I live at has enough greenery to feed a lot of herbivores. Granted, a savanna is way less dense but even in the background you can see a bunch of trees, more than enough for that herd to eat.

>>5030172
Who forgot to paint this one?

>>5055067
Alternative question: Who thought this creature is so divine you had to turn this cutie white?

>>5017407
If they mount males and females alike then it's incorrect to call them gay

>>5056584
If that bite landed at the right spot, that giraffe would have been dead.

y'know, nature really is insane sometimes.
Apparently a Horse/Goat but with a horn is too outlandish for reality but an animal with a neck so long it's comedic is fine

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>>5057574
It be like that sometimes.

>>5048012
They look goofy like aliens.
>>5057574
Their ear nerve also goes all the way down and up their neck.

>>5039388
Could a hybrid between this and a giraffe be made?

>>5061587
Giraffes have 2n=30, Okapis 2n=44 to 2n=46. Difference's too huge.

>>4993003
>>4996971
>>5004260
everything reminds me of her

>>5063200
gimme some of that

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>>5065525
no

>>5066816
sadly these are extinct now

>>4991755
Lol that was my exact thought.

>>4993003
What an absolute poleslut.

>>5069042
Hello I'm an armchair psychologist and I feel you have a deep desire to be that pole. This can lead into a vore fetish and we don't want to go that rabbit hole.

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lil' gristle

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>>4991417
Went to Australia Zoo last week. The Giraffe you see in the background is Forrest, the Guiness world record holder for the tallest known Giraffe.

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>Forest with Terry Irwin
He's 5.7 meters (18 feet 8 inches) - it was like seeing a dinosaur walking around. He's the only male with a group of 4 females. I guess they're trying to breed super tall giraffes. They share an enormous enclosure with zebras and rhinos.

>>5071300
LOOK AT THAT LANKLET
LOOK AT HIM

>>4994337
>>4991488
Imagine the marriage and sex...

>>5071303
Wonder if there's a hard limit on how tall they can get.

>>5071255
cheeky lil' fella

>>5010918
lawl is this real? what's he doing up there?

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>>4991417
>>4991555
>>5017493
>>5020325
>>5020781
>>5021148

>A 2019 genome study (cladogram below) finds that Giraffidae are a sister taxon to Antilocapridae, with an estimated split of over 20 million years ago.

I'm losing my fucking mind.
I'm tempted to believe Africa and North America must have been connected (relatively) more recently, if only briefly, but then it wouldn't explain the seeming arbitrary nature of the roster of animals exchanged. Elephants, rhinos, zebras, giraffes, lions, all made the exchange, but then only one group of monkeys made it over and our porcupines are convergent and not even related to one another.

>>5072938

Both groups existed in Asia, which is connected to both Africa and North America. No need for an African/American connection

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>>5071485
Do they even make hoof rings?

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>>5074691

>>5075189
I'd just order an xxl size human bracelet and put it around the hoof.

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>>5077014
Awww

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Burning Mammal festival brought us new giraffes. Pick one, they're free and available!

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>>5076091

>>5081889
Very weird.

>>4991417

According to the greeks giraffes are camelopards, hideous hybrids between camels and leopards

>>5050860
>I'd invite Knuckles
Did you watch his show? Knuckles is Jewish now.
>>5072938
>our porcupines are convergent and not even related to one another
When I first saw an American porcupine, I was surprised it… didn't look like a porcupine. Like… at all. We have two types in Italy, porcospino (literally spiny pig because their snouts are pig-like but they have spines; cognate with porcupine) and istrice, the African one. Istrice look like very large guinea pigs with a mane of quills. I posted a video in a webm thread some time back of one wandering around a supermarket carpark.

>>5082080
no it means spotted camel

>>5082103
>didn't look like a porcupine
to me they're quite similar

>>5005357
Giraffes lick and suck on poles, bones, and other objects primarily to get essential minerals like salt and sodium, which they often lack in their leafy diet, and to help neutralize toxins in acacia leaves they eat. This behavior, called osteophagy (bone-eating) or simply mineral-seeking, stimulates saliva and digestion, helping them process food and maintain health, acting like a natural vitamin supplement or boredom relief in captivity.
yes this is an AI overview

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>>4991488
Cool /mu/ reference

>>5082169
african one looks like a spined capybara while american one looks like a spiked beaver, the length and shape of their skulls is completely different

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>>5026082
>>5025912
>Rothschild’s giraffe

>>5083898
>>5084755
Stop looking at me like that

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>>5084910
no

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>>5085885

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Really like the color on this one.

>>5032960
jar jar esque

>>5040355
just realized their eyes stick out, letting them look down at the ground easily
mind blown

>>5081889
hell yeah

https://www.blackpoolzoo.org.uk/blog/giraffes-arent-ideal-as-pets

At least he asked.

>>5015287
>>5024862
It was chilling. Eventually, the giraffe scared the lions off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVeIfebXrIs

>>4991555
>most are pretty simple horse/deer hybrids
>the most successful was the weirdest one of the bunch

>>5014524
>DAMN YOU, N'GUBU
>HOW COULD YOU GIVE THE STAR OF YOUR SAFARI THE OL' SPICY BACKPACK

I never realized how hardcore it was to be a giraffe until I saw a video where one male swings his head into the other males leg on top of the joint and the leg cracks in half like a toothpick

so humans killed every woolly mammoth but spared giraffes...they seem like a much easier target to harvest

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>>5094200
Never underestimate the power of a giraffe.

>>5094200
Was toothpick guy ok?

>>5091668
wouldn't be surprised if it died of infection later. a bunch of puncture wounds is not good.

>>5095220
I think they get eaten easily because they are too heavy for only three legs

>>5015181
>Zanziraffe of the Royal Mist

>>5014524
>Real Housewives of the Serengeti

>>5091348
cute

>>5013180
Fun fact, giraffe moms dont crouch down when giving birth, so the baby falls 6 feet to the ground.

>>5094730
Youll notice african elephants were not hunted to extinction either.

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