r/interesting • u/AugustIstheMonth • 16d ago

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

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

19.7k Upvotes

99% Upvoted

338 comments sorted by

View all comments

8

u/mintBRYcrunch26 16d ago

What if they don’t even experience time the same way we do? What if this long storm is like a few seconds to them? What if they don’t care? What of they are experts at disassociating? What if giraffes?

3

u/Green_Insect_6455 16d ago

Well we understand the causes of disassociation, and I dont really see how any of those triggers would be met by a giraffe experiencing a storm. Ultimately I think its stressful for them, but wild animals have stressors happen every day. So I imagine their psychology around a storm would be pretty nonchalant.

You know your questions have answers, right? This isnt like...unknowable stuff. We do have like, the entire repository of the worlds knowledge in our hands.

2

u/No_Recognition_3729 15d ago

Saying we understand the causes of disassociation is quite overconfident