i am an evolutionary biologist and i can confirm this is what happened
Fun fact: we don't know if giraffes can swim. No one ever seen a swimming giraffe.
We know horses can, and scientists try to scale that data up for giraffes, because simply dropping a giraffe in a lake would be considered inhumane. Research article: Predicting the buoyancy, equilibrium and potential swimming ability of giraffes by computational analysis
What if we just put one next to a nice looking pool, maybe add some long chairs, some sunshades, and a couple nice floaters. If after adding a floating minibar it still doesn't go in then we know they don't swim.
I would imagine that balance is a huge problem, and I’m guessing they can but they struggle to stay upright?
I have no idea.
First long legs to reach the top of the trees, than long neck to reach the bottom with their mouth to drink from a waterhole
Stupid long horses.
Gif version?
No it pronounced as "Juh-raf" not "guh-raf" /j
LOL!
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