Believe it or not, it'll probably bleed out first. Giraffes have a lot of very fragile blood vessels in their legs. Break one and a lot of blood vessels are going pop too on the inside
Don’t believe everything you read on the internet, case in point, I’m a giraffe expert at the university of Madagascar. The lower extremities for giraffes (Giraffa Camelopardalis) have been reinforced over thousands of years of evolution. While some had weaker legs, they would die off quicker in battle.
I hate to correct this. But giraffe blood vessels, specially in the legs are built to endure high blood pressure and are really resilient and durable in afraid
Hope so. But then again a giraffe's skin, according to the last source in my comment above, is 16mm thick. Double the thickness that of hippos and elephants
The skin on their legs is incredibly tight and thick to act as giant compression socks - giraffes have insanely high blood pressure to get it all the way up to their heads. But break that skin and they'll bleed out incredibly fast.
That or they suffocate cause their hearts are barely able to circulate their blood back to their body even when standing. Giraffes sleep in small spurts and body evolved to run off of a few mins sleep.
Legit. Wild giraffes sleep for about 5-20 minutes at a time and for a total of 2 hours a day on average. You know when they're sleeping because they're not chewing
I think to remember that a sideeffect of giraf autonomi is, that they can only lay down for like 10-15 minuttes before they face heart failure, so it will probably be gone soon.
Adrenaline. When a body part is broken and hanging off/out like that, animas don’t recognize it, hence why it’s flailing around trying to get the weird floppy thing off its leg.
That’s part of why it’s so hard to treat horses for broken legs. There’s a famous racehorse who underwent surgery to fix a leg that would’ve been successful…if she hadn’t panicked upon coming out of anesthesia, flailed around wildly, re-broken the original injury, and shattered her other shoulder in the chaos. Her name was Ruffian. Poor baby.
She was euthanized after.
I really hate it when some people say animals are better than humans. Sure, globally speaking, definitely for the Earth. But that's not what they mean. On average, animals are far more brutal than humans when viewed as individuals.
Penis fencing because both flatworms are trying to rape the other by way of traumatic insemination (where semen is injected by way of wounding one partner with a sharp penis btw), may I add.
Yeah every time someone starts pontificating about the wholesomeness of animals I just want to scream "nearly any animal will eat their babies!! Including your precious dogs and cats!!"
Anyway, we wouldn't have this problem if everyone knew nature was metal...
Yea the "nearly any animal" truly means "nearly any animal". If one gets hungry enough then anything and everything that isnt instant death poison is on the menu, and we are just animals too so yea cannibalism happens in desperate times all the same
Yeah but no other creature is capable of the level of pre-meditated and planned cruelty humans are capable of, for no other purpose than perverse self-gratification.
They’re only better because they are a bundle of instincts and don’t have empathy. They’re trying to survive and don’t have the capacity to fully understand what that means for everything around them.
But dolphins have empathy and rape things so you know. Maybe we’re all just psychos!
That doesn’t mean animals are “far more brutal than humans.” It means humans act like animals. The difference is we can do much more harm and at a larger scale due to our capabilities.
Ehh... Orcas will basically play catch with each other using terrified live baby seals until the seal dies and then they eat it sometime after that. Is that not torture for fun?
For me anyone who says that kind of thing is often just telling on themselves regarding their lack of knowledge of both nature and the animal kingdom.
Nature is brutal and often a constant state of life or death survival. Comparatively, being a human has its own set of problems, challenges, and risks. But being "civilized" as a species has noted advantages over the default settings in nature.
Yeah considering what just happened this weekend. Our fists are probably our most primitive weapons and we still fight with them. Even with gloves and professional training a real boxer can break your jaw. Imagine if we didn’t have modern medicine and it was a life or death situation too.
Boxers can actually hit harder because of gloves. Gloves don’t protect your opponent, they protect your fists.
And our most deadly primitive weapon is our throwing arm. We’re the only animal that can throw as accurately and fast. By the time kids are in little league, they can already throw a rock hard/accurate enough to kill a lesson/animal
Many many animal males will try to kill a rival male if they can. True some only fight to submission. But this is like calling a large part of the animal world dickheads. For many males death comes in fights for mates or territory. And even if you win, you get older and the younger and stronger will eventually come for you the former winner who will eventually become the loser. For males when you hit your prime you fight and hope to get the chance to mate, but their prime years are not long. And being older and out of your prime does not mean you are shown any respect, you are weaker. Bison, lions wolves, elephant males will kill rival males if they are able. This is a common reality that for some reason people are surprised to learn. I blame watered down for TV documentaries and apparently increasingly sanitized youtube videos. They often don't give viewers the very harsh realities of males lives due to the brutality.
Geez the other giraffe was just walking alongside the injured one for awhile, like “Oh, you’ve got a broken leg… wouldn’t it be a mighty shame if you got ANOTHER ONE”
There will be no quick exit for this guy. He's already immobilised, so most likely he'll be eaten alive no matter what comes for him... Unless the broken bone ruptured a blood vessel. Due to their high blood pressure they'll bleed out fairly quick.
I’m totally Agreed with you, yet in my observations, people seek reasons to legitimize their violent tendencies, I think this is the conflict between instinct and civilization.
I think violence is also in our instinct. I think we have equal capacity for empathy and violence, as most mammals. Wolfs are also cuddly except when they're trying to eat something.
Civilization is a whole new dimension / discussion altogether. My sense is that we have these fairly tribalistic tendencies, and civilization is us trying to "undo" these tendencies to live better as a larger group of collectives. It's a kind of growing pain for humanity to figure out how the heck can we live together. I mean we've come a long way but there's still a long way to go. I believe until we figure out this whole civilization thing (how we can all coexist on the planet) we won't be leaving earth to other planets anytime soon haha.
seeing this video makes me think this probably happens pretty often. If a giraffe catches the other ones legs just right, either the legs are breaking or the neck
Kind of. They were able to bring it to the hospital in time and heel the broken legs, but then the hospital bills arrived and now the giraffe is broke and on welfare.
They're tougher than one would think and are mostly safe from predators when adult and healthy (lions prefer large prey but mostly targets animals slightly smaller, to a couple of times larger than themselves). Low competition for food and efficient walking ensures a steady food supply without having to resort to fat storage or flight.
You know, I've never thought of giraffes as long-necked goats until I saw this one use his head like a mace. Makes sense though: they eat everything and have those little horn nubs like goat horns.
I KNEW THOSE HORNS* WEREN'T JUST DECORATIVE! 50+ year old dude here, grew up and loved watching nature documentaries. Giraffes were always shown as gentle herbivores, and I suppose not being a predator or rival, they would be, but I always wondered what those things were doing. Vestigial maybe, but I have never previously come across footage of them being used like this. Seeing them at a full throw from that long neck? That would send a freshly impaled human into low orbit.
* They're "ossicones" for those interested (not 'true' horns).
I don't think most people have any idea of how aggressively giraffes fight during, usually, mating season or to protect their calves. Plus, people have probably never seen the manner in which they fight. It's pretty crazy.
this reminds me of the gag in one piece where they make up ways dinosaurs used to hunt in very strange ways, like who would've thought that giraffes use their heads to break their rivals legs??
Damn this is brutal...I knew giraffes fought by swinging their necks like that but it never crossed my mind the damage like this could be a result. That thing is just swinging freely 🫤
I know ur gonna die anyway giraffe, but I promise that it will hurt a whole lot less if you stop flinging the broken leg around like you've got a bug on it.
That poor thing can do nothing but sit there and wait to be eaten alive
Believe it or not, it'll probably bleed out first. Giraffes have a lot of very fragile blood vessels in their legs. Break one and a lot of blood vessels are going pop too on the inside
Why would we not believe this, you just said it. Sounds logical and you're on the internet.
Seems plausible
Yeah SwordTaster is a very professional name
It is a very common doctor's name.
My gf is a retired sword taster but she's no retired doctor. At least she says she's retired...
Sword tasting requires much professional training. Tongue cuts hurt! And it's hard to taste the difference between Japanese forged steel and Damascus.
Depends on the profession
Don’t believe everything you read on the internet, case in point, I’m a giraffe expert at the university of Madagascar. The lower extremities for giraffes (Giraffa Camelopardalis) have been reinforced over thousands of years of evolution. While some had weaker legs, they would die off quicker in battle.
Source: made it up
Camelopaedalis.. So a giraffe is a cross between a camel and a leopard? Please inform mr expert from Madagascar
is the Latinized form of the Greek kamelopardalis, which literally translates to "camel-leopard"
So, yes.
Idk them.
I knew you made it up the moment you said “university of Madagascar”.
Everybody knows that’s not a real place but the name of a movie.
"You really think someone would do that?
Just go on the internet and tell lies?"
I am a king from Madagascar And I like to move it, move it
🤣🤣🤣
Well someone already debunked him and provided receipts so he was actually wrong lol
People wouldn't go on to the internet and lie..... Would they?
Yeah but this isn't Facebook. They could be lying.
Believe it or not, I believe it.
He is obviously a Giraffe Biologist
Right. As far I am concerned, SwordTaster is the foremost expert on giraffe mortality.
Hopefully this is the case.
I hate to correct this. But giraffe blood vessels, specially in the legs are built to endure high blood pressure and are really resilient and durable in afraid
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpregu.00025.2013 https://www.sabisabi.com/discover/topics/africas-gentle-giants#:~:text=Imagine%20how%20quickly%20a%20giraffe,Hard%20to%20believe
True, but the jagged end of that bone thrashing around in there probably did the job anyway.
Hope so. But then again a giraffe's skin, according to the last source in my comment above, is 16mm thick. Double the thickness that of hippos and elephants
The skin on their legs is incredibly tight and thick to act as giant compression socks - giraffes have insanely high blood pressure to get it all the way up to their heads. But break that skin and they'll bleed out incredibly fast.
One good thing about that. Quick death. Little suffering
I wish I could tell someone (a therapist, preferably) why this comment made me laugh so hard that I cried, but it’s a mystery.
So he was right after all when he said that we aren’t going to believe this.
Why do you hate to correct it??? You're doing everyone a service...
This is the internet, we believe everything you say
Oh … good?
That or they suffocate cause their hearts are barely able to circulate their blood back to their body even when standing. Giraffes sleep in small spurts and body evolved to run off of a few mins sleep.
Legit. Wild giraffes sleep for about 5-20 minutes at a time and for a total of 2 hours a day on average. You know when they're sleeping because they're not chewing
You can’t make me believe you!!!
I'll choose to believe this because it sounds like a favorable end compared to being eaten alive ass first.
I think to remember that a sideeffect of giraf autonomi is, that they can only lay down for like 10-15 minuttes before they face heart failure, so it will probably be gone soon.
This makes melman from Madagascar make so much more sense
wait they have a face heart & regular heart?? Guess it makes sense how it can pump blood up their necks
😌
Holy hell the downvotes. Sorry man I thought it was funny, but i’m immature as a mf so there’s that
It’s like “I’m not dealing with this leg” and just waiting to be called into the light
anatomy**
"He's dead Jim!"
"No he's not, he's still walking, waving a broken leg around, acting like its only a flesh wound!!"
Wham!
There we go, all fixed. he'll bleed out now
edited for typos. lol
And that’s exactly what happened
It got eaten by lions later.
It seems like it isn't able to sit anymore.
Jesus fucking christ he is swinging that thing like a God damned flail.
Adrenaline. When a body part is broken and hanging off/out like that, animas don’t recognize it, hence why it’s flailing around trying to get the weird floppy thing off its leg.
He meant the winner
That's why you have to be in touch with your Animus
I think it hurts and it’s trying to shake off what’s hurting it, not realizing it’s a broken bone and the consequences of that.
That’s part of why it’s so hard to treat horses for broken legs. There’s a famous racehorse who underwent surgery to fix a leg that would’ve been successful…if she hadn’t panicked upon coming out of anesthesia, flailed around wildly, re-broken the original injury, and shattered her other shoulder in the chaos. Her name was Ruffian. Poor baby. She was euthanized after.
Reminds me of Kung Pow. The old secret face to fist technique, except it's face to leg attack
We trained him wrong... as a joke.
Giraffe on the ground like : I am bleeding, making me the victor.
Swinging the leg... swinging the leg...
He needs some squeaky shoes
Giraffe said “how about another PARALIZER!”
Next the giraffe will punch a solid block out of the other giraffes stomach
Damn... the attacking giraffe looks so methodical and calm with each swing, it's kind of scary...
His head or his leg?
Yes
One broken leg is basically a death sentence. But two? He’s not making it to the next sunrise
Oh shit yeah, both front ankles snapped. Miserable way to go…
He shouldn't have pranked the other giraffe
I was looking for someone to confirm 2 legs were broken. Amazing that they can break legs with their necks / heads.
I mean, have you seen their legs? 🥢
Skipped leg day.
Can I just say I am glad Im part of a species that does not have to be in mortal danger every time Im trying to hit on someone ?
Well I mean its a case by case basis, experiences may vary, but you know what I mean.
I really hate it when some people say animals are better than humans. Sure, globally speaking, definitely for the Earth. But that's not what they mean. On average, animals are far more brutal than humans when viewed as individuals.
It gets worse when you start scaling down to Insects.
Everyday is an absolute horror show for them.
Im just saying that Penis fencing being a real thing proves God has a sense of humor and a penchant for the sadistic
Penis fencing because both flatworms are trying to rape the other by way of traumatic insemination (where semen is injected by way of wounding one partner with a sharp penis btw), may I add.
Bed bugs have a bit of population control because females get dick stabbed to death if the population gets to high.
Also, male bed bugs can't actually tell if another bed bug is female or not. Male bed bugs get dick-impailed, too, and then they just fucking die.
Just when you think bed bugs were the worst, they get worser.
Not always, sometimes they survive to impregnate a female with the very same sperm they had injected into them.
I wish I could respond to this with an image because words cannot do justice to how this makes me feel.
This is both horrifying and hilarious at the same time. The way I'm shock-laughing right now.
I volunteer as tribute
Username checks out. I mean just the fact that you threw “penchant” out there.
It's a mercy that they're barely sentient.
Yeah every time someone starts pontificating about the wholesomeness of animals I just want to scream "nearly any animal will eat their babies!! Including your precious dogs and cats!!"
Anyway, we wouldn't have this problem if everyone knew nature was metal...
To be fair, humans do too but we are kinda blessed that most don't have to.
Yea the "nearly any animal" truly means "nearly any animal". If one gets hungry enough then anything and everything that isnt instant death poison is on the menu, and we are just animals too so yea cannibalism happens in desperate times all the same
When someone speaks like that, it immediately indicates how sheltered they are and how surface level is their knowledge about nature.
Yeah but no other creature is capable of the level of pre-meditated and planned cruelty humans are capable of, for no other purpose than perverse self-gratification.
They’re only better because they are a bundle of instincts and don’t have empathy. They’re trying to survive and don’t have the capacity to fully understand what that means for everything around them.
But dolphins have empathy and rape things so you know. Maybe we’re all just psychos!
It depends. Animals don’t intentionally commit genocide or torture for fun. Humans are capable of being the most altruistic and selfish of animals.
Some mammals do. Dolphins, otters, apes amongst others are assholes that sometimes cause harm just for shit and giggles
That doesn’t mean animals are “far more brutal than humans.” It means humans act like animals. The difference is we can do much more harm and at a larger scale due to our capabilities.
Ehh... Orcas will basically play catch with each other using terrified live baby seals until the seal dies and then they eat it sometime after that. Is that not torture for fun?
Sounds like someone forgot to inform cats.
Same.
For me anyone who says that kind of thing is often just telling on themselves regarding their lack of knowledge of both nature and the animal kingdom.
Nature is brutal and often a constant state of life or death survival. Comparatively, being a human has its own set of problems, challenges, and risks. But being "civilized" as a species has noted advantages over the default settings in nature.
Yeah considering what just happened this weekend. Our fists are probably our most primitive weapons and we still fight with them. Even with gloves and professional training a real boxer can break your jaw. Imagine if we didn’t have modern medicine and it was a life or death situation too.
Boxers can actually hit harder because of gloves. Gloves don’t protect your opponent, they protect your fists.
And our most deadly primitive weapon is our throwing arm. We’re the only animal that can throw as accurately and fast. By the time kids are in little league, they can already throw a rock hard/accurate enough to kill a lesson/animal
Gloves do protect your opponent from getting cut up quite as easy, won’t protect them from brain damage by getting hit repeatedly in the head
yeah just avoid places where people get drunk and it's mostly safe
At worst you can pacify an angry boyfriend by saying "sorry man" and leave.
As long as you no longer go to school
I don't know why but this tore at my emotions more than a lot of the shit I've seen on the internet. Fuck man, nature is truly metal.
I feel it. This amazingly odd creature, that we’ve grown up to know as a gentle top of the tree eater, is also a dickhead.
Essentially every African animal is a dickhead. That includes all humans since we also evolved in Africa.
Im beginning to think this whole Earth thing was a bad idea...
You really leaving out Australian animals?
At least Koalas are chill.
Koalas are absolutely NOT chill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRqblpEhu6Q
Many many animal males will try to kill a rival male if they can. True some only fight to submission. But this is like calling a large part of the animal world dickheads. For many males death comes in fights for mates or territory. And even if you win, you get older and the younger and stronger will eventually come for you the former winner who will eventually become the loser. For males when you hit your prime you fight and hope to get the chance to mate, but their prime years are not long. And being older and out of your prime does not mean you are shown any respect, you are weaker. Bison, lions wolves, elephant males will kill rival males if they are able. This is a common reality that for some reason people are surprised to learn. I blame watered down for TV documentaries and apparently increasingly sanitized youtube videos. They often don't give viewers the very harsh realities of males lives due to the brutality.
Same and also not sure why.
Geez the other giraffe was just walking alongside the injured one for awhile, like “Oh, you’ve got a broken leg… wouldn’t it be a mighty shame if you got ANOTHER ONE”
I think he was lining up for double crippled.
Aw man, of all the subs not to be able to post Karate Kid gifs in... 😱😥
sweep the leg
Giraffe Kai
You got a problem with that Mr. Lawrence?
NOT ONLY Will This Kill You, IT Will Hurt The Whole TIME You are Dying
That’s it, giraffes are back on my menu! Cunts
There will be no quick exit for this guy. He's already immobilised, so most likely he'll be eaten alive no matter what comes for him... Unless the broken bone ruptured a blood vessel. Due to their high blood pressure they'll bleed out fairly quick.
Giraffes go into heart failure after 10-20 minutes of laying prone due to the dynamics of their circulatory systems.
Geoffrey will be dead within 45 minutes tops.
That I didn't know. Let's hope he got to lay alone for 20 minutes then... Would suck if a pack of wild dogs came after 5-8 minutes...
Still here baby.
Unless he's on lisinopril
Hopefully the asphyxia from angioedema gets him first them
This is how we end up with pics of hyenas walking around with giraffe parts in their mouths.
TIL these mother fuckers are kick boxers going for dead legs… with their heads
Never in a million years would I have guessed that this is how giraffes fight.
Would you mercy kill that Animal?
Def, nothing good happens after this, better to end it quick.
Yes
Absolutely, it's gonna get eaten anyway so I prefer it to not be alive until then.
Yes. I'm a human and we project empathy. That's what makes the human species humans. You could say that's in our natural instinct.
I’m totally Agreed with you, yet in my observations, people seek reasons to legitimize their violent tendencies, I think this is the conflict between instinct and civilization.
I think violence is also in our instinct. I think we have equal capacity for empathy and violence, as most mammals. Wolfs are also cuddly except when they're trying to eat something.
Civilization is a whole new dimension / discussion altogether. My sense is that we have these fairly tribalistic tendencies, and civilization is us trying to "undo" these tendencies to live better as a larger group of collectives. It's a kind of growing pain for humanity to figure out how the heck can we live together. I mean we've come a long way but there's still a long way to go. I believe until we figure out this whole civilization thing (how we can all coexist on the planet) we won't be leaving earth to other planets anytime soon haha.
Yeah. I’m not so sure.
Don’t google it but ummm…. There’s another giraffe fight video where one of them breaks their neck….
I'm gonna do it
So how was the video
All I have ever found is pics and short videos of one giraffe with a zigzag neck, from an alleged fight 5-6 years prior.
seeing this video makes me think this probably happens pretty often. If a giraffe catches the other ones legs just right, either the legs are breaking or the neck
How u not gonna post it for us. You know what sub your in!
Was this on the Masai Mara last week?
A few days back, yes.
I saw the aftermath probably an hour or two after this
And it ended…. Well for it?
Kind of. They were able to bring it to the hospital in time and heel the broken legs, but then the hospital bills arrived and now the giraffe is broke and on welfare.
He became depressed from the debt and tried to end it all but he couldn't find a tree tall enough for the noose.
It ended with a hyena eating its bowels as it bled out
As expected sadly lol
That's brutal
Watch it in slo-mo. That front left leg is flapping around like a loose sock.
Ooof. That’s a death sentence
Chrissy, he’s fucked up
Don't they have medicine they should take, these assholes?
Sure, go piss it away on the Serengeti
I don’t know how such a species has survived for so long? Twig legs & neck, you’d think just sneezing near them would break them.
They're tougher than one would think and are mostly safe from predators when adult and healthy (lions prefer large prey but mostly targets animals slightly smaller, to a couple of times larger than themselves). Low competition for food and efficient walking ensures a steady food supply without having to resort to fat storage or flight.
Only males engage in this violence. The females don't. And you only need few surviving males to repopulate.
Also giraffes are very sturdy animals that has few natural predators. If you see one giraffes are HUGE and lions are like dog sized in comparison.
r/whywomenlivelonger
They can also kick quite hard. Hunting a giraffe is one of the more dangerous meal options in Africa.
Ooooooooooo. Oooooo. Ooo. Oh oh no. Oh he’s fucked.
You know, I've never thought of giraffes as long-necked goats until I saw this one use his head like a mace. Makes sense though: they eat everything and have those little horn nubs like goat horns.
I KNEW THOSE HORNS* WEREN'T JUST DECORATIVE! 50+ year old dude here, grew up and loved watching nature documentaries. Giraffes were always shown as gentle herbivores, and I suppose not being a predator or rival, they would be, but I always wondered what those things were doing. Vestigial maybe, but I have never previously come across footage of them being used like this. Seeing them at a full throw from that long neck? That would send a freshly impaled human into low orbit.
* They're "ossicones" for those interested (not 'true' horns).
Brother, it was NEVER that serious
Never skip neck day
That was nasty
I don't think most people have any idea of how aggressively giraffes fight during, usually, mating season or to protect their calves. Plus, people have probably never seen the manner in which they fight. It's pretty crazy.
Down goes Frazier!!
Well that's ruined my morning.
Same thing happened to Anderson Silva
Wow. This made me incredibly sad.
this reminds me of the gag in one piece where they make up ways dinosaurs used to hunt in very strange ways, like who would've thought that giraffes use their heads to break their rivals legs??
Damn this is brutal...I knew giraffes fought by swinging their necks like that but it never crossed my mind the damage like this could be a result. That thing is just swinging freely 🫤
One blow and it destroyed the other front leg. It's like they know where to hit to deal the most damage. Poor thing.
Flippity floppity, nature is bruttily.
Do they get dizzy from swinging their heads like that?
Sweep the leg, Johnny
Painful to watch. Brutal! That other giraffe is straight savage.
Damn, that really hurt my heart.
TIL giraffes use their head as a wrecking ball
I can’t work out which leg is the bad one
NSFW maybe? Or does that apply to all of r/natureismetal?
That’s a hell of a golf swing
I've seen many 'horrific' posts on this sub but for some reason, this one made me really sad.
Poor thing just dropped 'dead', and I don't think he'll have to wait long before he starts getting eaten alive
Maurice, I cannot move it move it anymore....
Makes me wonder how does a giraffe know that’s an effective attack in the first place.
Lions somewhere chilling waiting for the loser
The blow that took out the other front leg. Damn! Testosterone is a hell of a hormone!
Thats gonna be a warm meal for many predators
I didn't know giraffe fight each other that's crazy
That's what happens when you don't pay Billy the Nine-Iron what you owe him
I know ur gonna die anyway giraffe, but I promise that it will hurt a whole lot less if you stop flinging the broken leg around like you've got a bug on it.
Lions ate real good that day
aren't giraffe fights usually tame, was that particular giraffe especially an asshole
went down like an AT-AT
That leg….This was so hard to watch 😭
When your toddler won't stay still while you're trying to put their onesie on
What does giraffe meat taste like?
Someone eatin good tonight!
Clearly been watching Benson Henderson