r/BeAmazed • u/TianaTatiana22 • 18h ago

Animal In case you were wondering, this is how giraffes fight

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u/unitedmary 17h ago

Doesn't that hurt their necks?

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u/ThirstyHank 17h ago

They can break each other's necks

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u/Photoshopdoge 12h ago

Really sucks that their main defense/attack ability can also hurt/cripple them. Nature really screwed over the Giraffe on that one.

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u/MaiaNyx 9h ago

I mean, that's pretty common. Life is dangerous. There's daily battles across the planet for food, mates, territory, etc. Lions have teeth and claws meant for killing prey. They also use those teeth and claws to fight for their survival mechanisms. As such, lions die to other lions.

Animals have to choose their risks. They need food to survive. They have to decide if fighting for that food is worthwhile. That's why there's a lot of "sizing up" in animal behavior as they do overall hope to avoid a fight because it's a draw on precious energy and is potentially fatal.

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u/TeilzeitOptimist 10h ago

Which physical attack doesn't hurt or cripple? The one that is deadly and..?

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u/unitedmary 17h ago

Both sides lose, but animals probably don't realize it. Someone should really step in.

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u/Short-Ideas010 13h ago

A lion... for a meal. Later though.

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u/Bearded_Toast 16h ago

You first, bot

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u/Frothmourne 13h ago

Their necks are built to absorb the impacts, but sometimes though rarely, they could get knocked out and the fall could kill them. Just imagine falling from a double storey building.

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u/Photoshopdoge 12h ago

It’s stupid but now I’m finding myself wondering if there’s ever been a giraffe that’s afraid of heights.

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u/Standard_Animal6097 14h ago

When giraffe fight it often leads to serous injury and death.

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u/Sea_Dust895 10h ago

Yes. And shortens their horns making makes in wild easier to spot because they have shorter horns than femal giraffes due to this fighting

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u/Bearded_Toast 17h ago

Why is this video so sped up? The real speed is impressive enough.

I don’t know who all needs to read this, but:

Reality is much more interesting than you using your human brain to decide what might be more interesting than reality.

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u/PM_me_your_whatevah 17h ago

Feels like we live in a post-reality world now. Shit gets faker every day.

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u/Error4ohh4 16h ago

It’s important to teach the truth and critical thinking as the most important things. 

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u/jibbergirl26 8h ago

It's sad, things so messed up now.

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u/luckylegion 12h ago

Attention span to watch the full video is gone that’s why, assume they will watch for 5 seconds

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u/TheLumpyCherrio 12h ago

This might explain why it looks plausible but somethibg about the movements appeared too similar to AI to me

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u/BeanBraun 6h ago

The added sound effects are not contributing anything good.

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u/Dangeryeezy 14h ago

Probably to skirt copyright detection is my guess

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u/Jamessgachett 16h ago

How u know it sped up

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u/Highlandertr3 16h ago

Because the original clip is from a known and watched documentary

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u/ivanstomp 17h ago

Lions in the bushes just letting them make dinner easy.

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u/heelstoo 11h ago

Aww, they’re even tenderizing the meal!

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u/EnoughOutOfYou 15h ago

You guys are amazed by this but if I do it at the urinal I'm kicked out of the Waffle House again.

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u/kawaiicoffeebean 14h ago

That's a great username you have there haha.

And I lol'd

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u/LiquidVillian 16h ago

This is actually a deadly move if done on humans

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u/clumsymomsie 17h ago

Oh.

I couldn’t watch the whole thing.  

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u/ciswhitedadbod 17h ago

This video looks editted. Like it's being sped up in spots and not others.

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u/TechnologyAncient594 16h ago

I knew that’s how they fight, but I didn’t know it was that intense!

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u/DeLiRiOuS753 17h ago

So. How is the winner decided?

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u/Jamessgachett 16h ago

The one who dosent die from neck break

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u/unknownyoyo 17h ago

Normally in surrender/retreat, or being knocked down.

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u/Tall_Advice_5408 12h ago

When one’s neck breaks or loses consciousness

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u/Redwif 16h ago

They may need a giraffe chiropractor after that.

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u/acab-abac 10h ago

A Giropractor?

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u/PunchTilItWorks 14h ago

And those heads are the size your torso. Massive animals, I’m sure there’s a lot of force there.

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u/guttanzer 16h ago

Giraffe heads are as big as horse heads. It’s gotta be like getting hit by engine blocks.

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u/Illustrious_Can4110 15h ago

Giraffe heads are much bigger than horse heads. I saw them at Melbourne Zoo a while back. I couldn't believe how huge they were... just not the obvious height, but their overall size.

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u/Big_Cry6056 10h ago

Not to be rude but we’ve heard horse heads are generally smaller in Australia. I’m not saying your horses head is smaller, just sayin statistically.

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u/alavantrya 9h ago

Yea, just saying “horses” leaves a pretty large range of sizes.

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u/Incandisent 3m ago

Basically the size of one eighth of a freezer

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u/jarjarclinks 13h ago

TIL giraffes have the same pattern as leopards.

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u/waitinglikeastone 16h ago

Giraffe's trashtalk: "I will slap the phlegm out of you". 😅😁

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u/Jaded_Addendum4040 16h ago

Shud upa your neck. No shud upa your neck

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u/JesusSquared123 17h ago

Are they able to kill each other?

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u/BassPlayingWitch 17h ago

Yup, the nubs on their heads are basically cartilage hammers that exist for this very purpose. If one of them doesnt back down first, then the only other way for it to end is when a neck breaks.

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u/scottylm 17h ago

I wish there were like fight scores for each blow with a meter on the top.. street fighter: jungle edition

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u/redsensei777 16h ago

WTF? These guys fight to the death!

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u/FileCheap7824 14h ago

Often yes.

They often survive with broken necks walking around all bent

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u/Canadian_Border_Czar 1h ago

Well that's depressing. Are they at least bad giraffes that sold drugs to kids or something?

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u/FileCheap7824 1h ago

Yes actually, only the villain giraffes get really hurt

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u/NoPepper2377 16h ago

Yeah, they don’t have police yet🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/ISTof1897 9h ago

Wish they had antlers.

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u/AgeHorror5288 17h ago

You see me whip, you see me ne ne

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u/Canelosaurio 17h ago

The more I watch the more bizarre it seems

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u/cudaman_1968 17h ago

Head butting right in their hearts.

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u/QuttiDeBachi 16h ago

Ben Gay could make a killin out here…

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u/Spare-Management3769 16h ago

What are these things necks made of? And where can I get some?

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u/disagreet0disagree 16h ago

If I’m a giraffe I’m like ok u know what, you win, right off the bat. 

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u/InsertDoublePun 16h ago

Still not as bad as those worms who stab each other with their dicks until the victor fucks the corpse..

https://giphy.com/gifs/wxuP16KNOhyHm

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u/n00-1ne 16h ago

“Ow! Fuck Barry, that got me right in the neck!”

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u/ShoheiHoetani 17h ago

It's like two dudes fighting over one woman at an orgy

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u/br3dj 17h ago

You're a pain in the neck George

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u/grneyedguy1 17h ago

Looks like a real pain in the neck.

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u/ihavenobrainx 17h ago

Why am I imagining a gay couple (male + male) fighting?

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u/Internal_Set_6564 15h ago

No one was accusing anyone of being like their mother…so not exactly the same (in my experience)

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u/ihavenobrainx 15h ago

What? Are you sentient being? Are you carbon-based living form?

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u/CDBoomGun 9h ago

Sword fighting?

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u/ihavenobrainx 9h ago

Yeah yeah. That pointy sword fighting and they covered their faces with masks? What is it called? We called it “Anggar” here. But you know what I mean.

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u/PowerCreative2747 8h ago

fucking painful !!!

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u/Mr_Flibble1981 9h ago

You’re not far wrong, there’s often sexual behaviour mixed with the neck fighting between two males.

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u/ihavenobrainx 9h ago

Ah ok. Thank you. I thought I was the only weirdos here? Or we are both? Or there are more? Anyway, you understood me. So it is all good.

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u/PositiveMumP 17h ago

That is so fascinating!

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u/meandotherslive 17h ago

very flexible

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u/TSARINA59 17h ago

Wow. And I thought I had migraines. My head hurts from just watching them..

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u/Fluffy_Ad_5199 17h ago

Stop that right now 🛑

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u/Xendarq 17h ago

We live in a world of magical creatures and I think we forget it sometimes.

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u/DantheDutchGuy 17h ago

Using their head as a baseball bat? 😳

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u/BoogeymanReborn- 17h ago

Nature’s way of establishing dominance is wild!

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u/AffectionateRain6796 16h ago

They kick too.

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u/Robbiebny 16h ago

Swings it like a bat

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u/Unopuro2conSal 16h ago edited 16h ago

Am I the only one that thinks this looks like a giant penis fight?

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u/Highlandertr3 16h ago

They can and do kill each other doing this. The hits are hard enough they can rupture the organs of the opponent.

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u/Sir_Noxx 16h ago

They fight exactly how I imagined they would

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u/DahPhuzz 16h ago

Lately they just join the Trump administration as well.

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u/Neoligistic 16h ago

I whip my hair back and forth

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u/Kimo300 16h ago

Somebody call the zookeeper

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u/holyfire001202 15h ago

The winner is the one who doesn't give themselves a concussion

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u/AvsGrams 15h ago

Low blows all around

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u/Raging_PineAppleee 15h ago

Concussion mania

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u/stikaznorsk 15h ago

No control. No submission attempts. Take him 2 years in Dagestan and forget

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u/primavera31 15h ago

Never skip neg day..😆

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u/prof_devilsadvocate3 15h ago

The frequency of spar seems like it's an AI

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u/Miballsurchin 15h ago

Just a straight up slugfest. Metal.

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u/Phuckers6 15h ago

Whiplash!

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u/MaleficentPanic227 15h ago

ITs possible the diplodocuses used to do something similar to...their body is somewhat similar.

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u/mosheoofnikrulz 14h ago

And when it's time to make up she says she has a headache. Go figure

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u/Shantotto11 14h ago

Cowards, both of them. Aiming for the neck like that. /s

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u/factstony 14h ago

I'm surprised, but that's totally normal think, when you consider the number of animals that fight with their head. If they had a long neck, they would use it too.

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u/NOLA2Cincy 14h ago

That is violent. Yikes. Kinda sorry I watched it.

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u/born2stink 14h ago

Oh and also they fuck afterwards, like the winner tops. This is incredibly common

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u/ianthehuman 14h ago

What does it look like when they lose the fight?

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u/nextinline1987 14h ago

Wacky waving inflatable arm flailing two man.

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u/Training_Yak_4655 14h ago

Where's the female giraffe they're fighting over?

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u/ChemicalBookkeeper85 13h ago

This is how I fight too

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u/dontombabu 13h ago

Helicopter helicopter... 🕺💃🕺

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u/Tiny_Animal9496 13h ago

Meanwhile I sleep slightly wrong and my neck is beyond fucked for a week. 😳

Then there’s these guys, using their necks as baseball bats.

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u/Business-Wasabi-3193 13h ago

That’s insane. I’m just gonna smash you with my head.

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u/GodsBestFighter 13h ago

First time i look into girrafes that long. They wierd af.

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u/nunyobusinessfool 13h ago

Did we just become best friends??

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u/raver58 13h ago

That's gonna hurt in the morning

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u/Wizard_Logic 13h ago

I hate the fact that one of them had to die. 😢 Based on how stupid these animals are, I was hoping to see them both fall. 

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u/chiralityproblem 13h ago

“I am Dr. M sit down lad. So why do you think you may have CTE?”

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u/Separate-Reindeer-49 12h ago

Got whiplash watching this

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u/zestyclose_match1966 12h ago

Oddly enough, this is also how I fight

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u/kirani100 12h ago

I've seen a 🦒 get their leg absolutely destroyed by one of these swings. A larger male kept targeting the same leg until it completely snapped. Then the smaller male kept running and collapsed under his own weight, breaking the other legs in the process... Limbs just flailing until he was on the floor. Other male kept hitting it. This looks goofy but wild animals can be insanely brutal to others of their species.

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u/zigot021 12h ago

what is this? if I sleep on the wrong side of a pillow my neck is busted...

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u/WujekAdi2003 12h ago

I wounder if Sauropods also did this im times of dinosaurs

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u/SeVeNeLeVeN-7II 11h ago

That’s how a giraffe mosh pit gets started

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u/coffeebreak1546 11h ago

Looks AI to me

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u/sociofobs 11h ago

When she says she's into "necking", but you've no idea what you're getting yourself into.

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u/AndySMar 11h ago

I wpuld do it that way too. I mean, human females pull hair, human males kick each other in the bal...testicles.

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u/PeroCigla 10h ago

How else would they fight?

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u/misterbrotherm4n 10h ago

most retarded fighting in animal kingdom

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u/igpila 10h ago

Looks silly but it's actually brutal

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u/mrmidnightuk 9h ago

Where do they wear a business tie though?

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u/OGIBLP 9h ago

It’s also how they find a mate. Males will wail their head into a female’s lower belly until she urinates. The male will taste the urine to see if she’s fertile.

Enjoy your day!

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u/Jet-Let4606 9h ago

This needs a Tony Baker VO.

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u/Slatt_999 9h ago

Damn Their necks must hurt

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u/zachforever 9h ago

In my head all I cant picture is a group of hungry lions waiting on the sidelines for the loser.

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u/Pops-Place60 9h ago

Looks to me like even the winner looses

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u/tyngst 9h ago

A bit like base ball or golf!

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u/StatusInside432 8h ago

Throw dat awss is a circle

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u/Puzzleheaded-Hunt599 8h ago

giraffes are so unreal looking 😭

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u/Onslaughtsally 8h ago

Is it fighting or choreographed turn taking? "SUP BITCH, ILL FK YOU UP...okayurturn."

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u/barmaleydos 8h ago

Woah, how do such big clumsy animals with no fighting skills even survive against predators?

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u/SoozlesNoodles 8h ago

imagine somene came along and just swung a bat at your throat

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u/Ace95Archer 8h ago

Can we see a normal speed version?

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u/yossarian8910 8h ago

God I would be so embarrassed if this was how I fought.

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u/HideyHole5 8h ago

Use the hoofs! Use the hoofs!

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u/sachsrandy 7h ago

Please put this to the song wrecking ball

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u/Lanky-Awareness-7450 7h ago

Instant concussion!

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u/gebickidex03 7h ago

I thought their chilling

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u/Zone_Silver 7h ago

Well no. I never remotely even wondered about that topic but its an interesting bit of info

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u/HussingtonHat 7h ago

Known as the deadly L'Oréal

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u/xDreki 7h ago

I expected nothing less

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u/Loddar_M 7h ago

Aua...Kopfweh!

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u/BeanBraun 6h ago

Maybe that's right, but the sound is not that of a fight.

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u/severinks 6h ago

Dude at the end got hit with a phantom punch like how Mohammad Ali knocked out Sonny Liston.

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u/MaxwellHauser67 6h ago

"HeadBanging".. Taken up several hundred notches.

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u/yossarian8910 6h ago

Camels arent real. A sentient neck with the head of a camel with FAS attached to the tip? Nah. Fake.

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u/deliberatewellbeing 6h ago

you would think kicking is a less painful way to fight

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u/bonze73 6h ago

WTH did I just watch?… Giraffes moshing?…😆 Someone needs to add some Pantera into the background…😂😂😂

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u/Maleficent_Worry_233 6h ago

CTE must go crazy in the giraffe community

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u/Hot_Plant8696 5h ago

And this is also, in large part, the reason why they have such long necks… for mating-related combat.

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u/blackopal3746 5h ago

Looks like foreplay to me.

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u/Tonight5473 5h ago

We play arms, they play necks

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u/salgarj 5h ago

The premise would make you think you would be watching something silly and funny, but it actually looks scary and deadly.

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u/Remote_Two_3061 5h ago

Dont google what they do after fighting

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u/PitifulCombination45 4h ago

giraffes are such goofy looking giants lol

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u/Pretize11 4h ago

Just realized how cool giraffes are, they almost look like mythical creatures!

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u/PossibilityDefiant54 4h ago

I wasn’t wondering at all, but thank you so much. I was instantly interested and now I wonder why I didn’t before

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u/Drakanies 4h ago

I say whip it
Whip it good

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u/glostazyx3 4h ago

Now my neck hurts.  

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u/PrincesStarButterfly 4h ago

I’m having flash backs of long car trips with my siblings 🤣
https://giphy.com/gifs/qNbeedVeNC1l6

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u/Stunning_Warthog_141 3h ago

I bet they are gonna have a stiff neck the next day.

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u/PresentInfinite7170 2h ago

I was definitely imagining this

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u/Terrible-Law-4934 2h ago

When a Head shot is connected it is lethal.

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u/jeproks1 1h ago

Protect ya neck -Giraffes probably

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u/cincyphil 14m ago

Aww they’re taking turns.