To most people, giraffes are merely adorable, long-necked animals that rank near the top of a zoo visit or a photo-safari bucket list. But to a cardiovascular physiologist, there’s even more to love. Giraffes, it turns out, have solved a problem that kills millions of people every year: high blood pressure. Their solutions, only partly understood by scientists so far, involve pressurized organs, altered heart rhythms, blood storage — and the biological equivalent of support stockings.
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Scientists Discover Short-Legged Corgi Giraffes
A NECK AND NECK BATTLE
Giraffes utilize a very unusual battle technique. First, when they’re young, they playfully joust. Then, when they become mature males the neck and neck battles could be a deadly game.
Watching realistic CGI giraffes dive into a pool is pure ridiculous fun
This is completely absurd but Nicolas Deveaux’s 5 Mètres 80 is so fun that it doesn’t really matter. A group of giraffes raid a pool and start jumping off the high dive while doing tricks. It’s all CGI but the giraffes look so realistic that I can’t help but imagine the alternate reality that this is happening somewhere in some pool.
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