There are only five well-documented fatal lightning strikes on giraffes between 1996 and 2010. But due to the population of the species being just 140,000 during this time, it makes for about 0.003 lightning deaths per thousand giraffes each year. This is 30 times the equivalent fatality rate for humans.
Pic by Luca Galuzzi
Does it make a difference if I stand in front of the giraffe with a blue card while there’s a zebra climbing onto the giraffes head?
What about toads?
Yes, toads will hit giraffes more than humans. They get mesmerised and hypnotised by the long necks, they can’t help themselves but to attack.
Insane to think there’s only 140k of them. Seems super low for some reason.
Wild mammals only make up 4% of the total mammal biomass, and that 4% includes whales. We’re just not leaving a lot of room for nature anymore.
This is mostly caused by Africans wiring up giraffes for use as aerials to pull in distant TV stations.
Isn’t it because it’s illegal for us to hit them?
I was thinking “who has the balls to walk up and slap a giraffe”
Can’t reach that high.
why you little
Fun nature fact: Their horns act like lighting rods to provide a safe path to ground so as to keep the electricity away from their internal wiring and plumbing.
Please let this be true.
Also, according to many big game hunters, they are the tastiest animal. Apparently giraffe meat has a delightful sweetness to it.
Sadly, giraffe ranching hasn’t caught on. But maybe once lab grown meat is widely available someone will finally bring it to the masses.
They taste something like bald eagle, with a hint of condor.
What an evil and selfish thing to say.
Is it because of the spots?
It’s their feet. They have four, so have twice as many as humans. But lightning works exponentially.
Who’s out here punching giraffes?
RFJ JR
Kyle.
I highly doubt that…you give me like, I dunno, let’s say 5 people, and a catapult, and I bet you I can hit a giraffe before it gets struck by lightning.
Even more confident if you give me a people-sized potato cannon.
But that’s the thing, you’re NOT out there with your catapult, so the statistics still hold true. Assuming you were given the catapult and I was given a giant tesla coil, I believe I would still be able to zap 30x more giraffes than you could hit with your pathetic catapult.
Ah, the new Lemmy giraffaroo?
We should start a chain on Lemmy
Hold my can of beans!
can we catapult people in order of their current wealth hoarding?
Only into an active volcano
