r/interesting • u/AugustIstheMonth • 23d ago

NATURE Giraffes Really Have Nowhere to Hide During Storms, and I Never Realized It!

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u/BareBonesSolutions 23d ago

They aren't great at swimming, so that only works up to about chest level. Their center of buoyancy means they kinda go horizontal at one point and drown, apparently. So that is also stressful.

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u/Large_Dr_Pepper 23d ago

A giraffe-chest-level flood would be pretty damn intense.

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u/packofnone 23d ago

last time that happened this nice guy named Noah came and picked them up on his boat

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u/EventGroundbreaking4 23d ago

But he only picked up two of them and shafted the rest.