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Speaker 1: Welcome to stuff you should know from how Stuff Works

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Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh

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Speaker 1: Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, Jerry's over there.

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Speaker 1: So that makes this stuff amazing. Animal Edition, Yes, a

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Speaker 1: special request fulfilled Animal Edition. Yeah, we should tell the story.

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Speaker 1: Huh oh yeah, for sure. I guess there's no way

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Speaker 1: we can not tell the story because it's the cutest

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Speaker 1: thing that's happened in a long time. It really is. Um. So,

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Speaker 1: we did a show in Vancouver on uh September something, right,

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Speaker 1: in real time, it was last week for us. We

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Speaker 1: usually don't turn stuff around this fast, right, exactly. Um.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of times we'll do Q and A

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Speaker 1: after a show because we're like, the podcast isn't enough.

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Speaker 1: We ope people more than that, so we'll do a

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Speaker 1: Q and A. Right, that's right. And the last question

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Speaker 1: of the of the night was this cute little girl

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Speaker 1: just adorable and her name was Mika. Wasn't it yeah? Okay,

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Speaker 1: and Mika had a special request Chuck him what was it? Well,

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Speaker 1: it kind of went down like this. Mieka's dad walks

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Speaker 1: her up to the microphone. Everyone turns their attention to

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Speaker 1: this adorable six year old and in front of what

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Speaker 1: was it like a thousand and twelve people, she said,

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Speaker 1: can you do a podcast on your raff's and twelve

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Speaker 1: hundred hearts melted and immediately like afterwards, you were and

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Speaker 1: I were like, well, we're doing this as soon as

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Speaker 1: we get back. Yeah, that's right, and this this is

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Speaker 1: where we're at. We did it. Yeah, and you know

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Speaker 1: what it's Uh, Mika, you were not alone because giraffes

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Speaker 1: are amazing, as you will see in greater detail. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and you're not alone among your peers because I gotta

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Speaker 1: tell you as the father of a two year old daughter, uh,

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Speaker 1: and Jerry as the mom of a two year old,

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Speaker 1: they're all obsessed with giraffes. Yeah, it's true. You Me

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Speaker 1: and I started our niece Mila actually off on giraffes

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Speaker 1: pretty early. Yeah. And and like there's there's some of

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Speaker 1: the most adorable stuffed animals are toys around. So I

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Speaker 1: mean it's understandable how it would stick any kids crawl

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Speaker 1: like that. Well yeah, I mean they look, uh, nothing

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Speaker 1: I think at that age to where they think, well

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Speaker 1: I've seen a horse or a horse, or I've seen

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Speaker 1: a zebra, but this is I've seen a camel even,

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Speaker 1: and those things look a little weird. But then a

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Speaker 1: blown so much that I suspect that they're giraffes in

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Speaker 1: the little angel holding bay where babies stay before they

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Speaker 1: come down here to And yes, they want to say

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Speaker 1: small minds, it's not to say children are small minded. No, No,

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Speaker 1: like maybe literally small minded, but not in the figure

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Speaker 1: to adult sense physiologically speaking. There you go, right, So

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Speaker 1: everybody knows what giraffes are. You can point to a

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Speaker 1: picture of a giraffe and say what is this, and

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Speaker 1: the person will say it's a giraffe. It's a pretty

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Speaker 1: common thing to do. Maybe the arguably the best Charlie

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Speaker 1: giraffe snuggling. Look it up. I'll send it to You're

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Speaker 1: gonna love it. It's just adorable. Um, So everyone's quite

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Speaker 1: familiar with drafts, but giraffes are one of those animals

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Speaker 1: that we found from our research are just taken for granted.

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Speaker 1: Like everyone's like, everyone's like, look at those things are amazing,

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Speaker 1: these evolutionary wonders, and boy aren't they like in every

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Speaker 1: sense of the word. Uh. For many many millennia, human

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Speaker 1: leopard had gotten it on at some point and created

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Speaker 1: But then also you look at the giraffe's coat and

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Speaker 1: sense that human dumb dumbs would say stuff like that, right,

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Speaker 1: because they didn't understand evolution. And even like Mr. Evolution himself,

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Speaker 1: sure Mika has already read that. Sure, that's where that's

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Speaker 1: other animals were starving and dropping like flies, the giraffe

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Speaker 1: rising above the competition natural selection wise, right, Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: I guess, so they're like some for me and I'll

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Speaker 1: can't think of any other reason it makes complete sense. Well,

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Speaker 1: there's another guy, Jean Baptiste Lamark, who was pretty credible

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Speaker 1: I think they're an antelope that just stretches its neck

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Speaker 1: But that's there's still there. They're not entirely certain what

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Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. But there are some other

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Speaker 1: And then over in the giraffe genus, they they there's

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Speaker 1: the species um Giraffa Camela pardals like you said, right, um.

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Speaker 1: But there's a two thousand and sixteen study that was

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Speaker 1: oh is that right? Well, and't that what it says?

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Speaker 1: So there was not a lot of study in the

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Speaker 1: like all animals. Yeah, any animal we cover we find fascinating.

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Speaker 1: So they are the tallest living animal in the world.

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Speaker 1: being so huge and high off the ground that their

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Speaker 1: predators can actually reach them easily. That's that's really how

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Speaker 1: they survive. Do we take another break? Yeah, let's take

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Speaker 1: it away, all right, We'll be right back. All right.

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Speaker 1: So you're talking about giraffes running fast. I can run

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Speaker 1: about thirty five um for our Canadian friends, and and

425
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 1: certainly for Mika, that's fifty six kilometers. And we don't

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Speaker 1: often do those conversions anymore. Well, we don't usually have

427
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Speaker 1: an episode requested by a cute little Canadian. That's correct,

428
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Speaker 1: although you could make the argument that all Canadians are cute,

429
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:25,639
Speaker 1: sure right, nice at the very least. So, um, have

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Speaker 1: you ever seen a giraffe run in person? I don't

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Speaker 1: know that I have. You know that thing when you

432
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Speaker 1: start to get older, Chuck, where your brain has been

433
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:39,119
Speaker 1: around long enough that it can just make up memories

434
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 1: and you don't know if you actually experienced it or

435
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 1: if your brain is like, this is what that person

436
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 1: just asked would look like. So just go ahead and say, yes,

437
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:49,240
Speaker 1: that's what I just did. I'm not sure if I

438
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:51,640
Speaker 1: have or not, but at the very least I've seen

439
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 1: it on TV and can imagine it all right, so

440
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Speaker 1: I know we did it. We did an episode on

441
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 1: zoos and whether or not zoos are good or bad,

442
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,919
Speaker 1: and I sort of still haven't completely made up my

443
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,200
Speaker 1: mind on zoos, but um, I know you have your

444
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 1: on record. But I went to the San Diego Zoo

445
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: when we did a tour show there a couple of

446
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 1: years ago, and they have a draft habitat um very

447
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 1: nice one, and they had some girafts walking around doing

448
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 1: cute stuff, and then one of them, out of nowhere,

449
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 1: took off and started running, and it is It was

450
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:28,119
Speaker 1: the most graceful thing I've probably ever seen in nature

451
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: that didn't involve wings and flying. It was unbelievable, Like

452
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 1: you can look it up on YouTube. Giraffes running but

453
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 1: so like like banjo music wouldn't have been appropriate. No, no, no, no,

454
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 1: it's just they just sort of glide, man, And they're

455
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 1: so big, and their necks are going forward and backward,

456
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:51,399
Speaker 1: kind of like they're they're cranking it out with their neck. Uh,

457
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 1: and then their legs. It just it almost seems like

458
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 1: they're not touching the ground. It's not like a it's

459
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 1: a gallop, but it's hard to explain. Like when you

460
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,199
Speaker 1: see a horse gallop, you feel like they're grabbing that

461
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:06,639
Speaker 1: ground and it's very just strong looking, but a draft

462
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 1: just sort of glides. It's for such a big animal,

463
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,199
Speaker 1: and that might have something to do with the the

464
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 1: optics of it, but um, it's just something to see. Well.

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00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,159
Speaker 1: They also the way that they move their legs is

466
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 1: kind of peculiar as well. I think when they're running

467
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 1: it's front legs and then back legs and front legs

468
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 1: and then back legs, if I'm not mistaken. But then

469
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Speaker 1: when they're moving along at a slower speed, um, they're

470
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:32,400
Speaker 1: moving like right side legs, left side legs, right side legs,

471
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:34,639
Speaker 1: left side really, so it's not like one at a

472
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Speaker 1: time or uh, it's it's a bizarre way to to

473
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Speaker 1: walk around. Interesting yet another amazing thing about your raft's

474
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Speaker 1: all right? So, uh, one of our favorite things are

475
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Speaker 1: groups of animals, names of groups of animals, like you know,

476
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Speaker 1: a murder of crows and where they get these crazy names?

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Speaker 1: Uh in drafts. I never knew until today a group

478
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Speaker 1: of drafts is called a tower. I didn't know that anything.

479
00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: So sureraffs, it's long them known there's social animals. They

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Speaker 1: live in packs, but again they they live in towers.

481
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 1: I'm sorry they since they weren't really studied out in

482
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Speaker 1: the field, everything that they noticed about giraffe sociality was

483
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: basically in zoos, and that's an artificial habitat, right, So

484
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 1: they didn't get to see the real giraffes. But now

485
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 1: that they've really started to study them out in the field,

486
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 1: like systematically and really scientifically, um, they're finding that giraffes

487
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 1: are like even more social than than they thought. Yeah,

488
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 1: and they're also sort of like, uh, sort of like

489
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Speaker 1: a liberal hippie commune. Um. A tower can have tend

490
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Speaker 1: to twenty members, but it's not like a lot of

491
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: uh packs or murders or gaggles where you have um like, well,

492
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Speaker 1: the women and the children are here, and the men

493
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Speaker 1: do this. It's sort of anything goes that can be

494
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 1: mixed genders. Uh. They can be young and old. Members

495
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 1: can come and go as they please. They don't necessarily

496
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Speaker 1: stick together life. It's just seems like it's sort of

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Speaker 1: a loose arrangement where giraffes will be like, all right, well,

498
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Speaker 1: I'm cool to hang out with you guys for a

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00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 1: little while, right exactly, and they The other thing that

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Speaker 1: struck me too was that giraffe towers don't have territories,

501
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: which I don't. I can't think of any other mammals

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00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: off the top of my head that don't protect their turf.

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00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: So apparently, when giraffes do um fight, male giraffes do fight,

504
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 1: it's strictly over re access to the um. The ladies.

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00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 1: Oh well, but that's it. It's not like, hey, get

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00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 1: out of here, this is my acacia tree, right, you know. True.

507
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: I just think it's neat. There's no territories. It's like

508
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 1: go wherever you want, many very chill. Uh. This is

509
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 1: one of the other big facts of the show for me.

510
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:52,719
Speaker 1: So giraffes, one of their evolutionary adaptations is because they

511
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Speaker 1: are so vulnerable to attack because they eat like what

512
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 1: sixteen twenty hours a day and they're just hanging out

513
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 1: eaten trying to all get along. Lines are nearby, so

514
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: they don't sleep for hours at a time because they're

515
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: so vulnerable to attack, so they sleep. They only sleep

516
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 1: about five to thirty minutes a day in the twenty

517
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: four hour period. And sometimes those are like all right,

518
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stand here and I'm gonna take a one

519
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 1: minute nap standing up right, or maybe boy, I'm super tired,

520
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 1: I need to lay down for six minutes. And so

521
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 1: just google a picture of giraffe sleeping on the ground

522
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: and you will see a draft curled up with its

523
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: long neck kind of craning back towards this rump with

524
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 1: his little head on his butt like a swan. Yeah,

525
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: it's just adorable. My momo, my dog. She takes naps

526
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: like a giraffe with their head up or like a

527
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 1: like a really old person, or like she's nod off

528
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: and then like it lifts their head up. It's really

529
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: it's cute to see. Yeah, So you know, a draft

530
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 1: basically has to stay awake to keep an eye out

531
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Speaker 1: for predators. Um and they don't have a voice either.

532
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: They're one of the quietest mammals in nature. Yeah, a

533
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: lot of people think or thought for a very long

534
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: time that dress just didn't make sounds because it's so

535
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 1: rare to hear them make a sound. But again, further

536
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 1: studies found that they do make sounds, they just very

537
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 1: infrequently do. And they also think that potentially giraffes communicate

538
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 1: to one another over long distances at um sub sonic

539
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 1: frequencies that that humans just can't hear, so they may be,

540
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:40,239
Speaker 1: you know, humming, And there's actually there's a recording of

541
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 1: a giraffe humming to itself in the dark in a zoo.

542
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 1: It's really sweet to hear. But if you think of

543
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 1: a giraffe by itself in the dark in a zoo

544
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 1: and it's humming, it makes you wonder why it's humming

545
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, I mean, if you're around a giraffe,

546
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: what you might hear if you're lucky, it is like

547
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: a snort or maybe a hiss or a grunt. Probably

548
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 1: won't hear any roaring or mooing, although they can do that.

549
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: But the idea I've got is that that they just

550
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 1: don't care to talk to people much, you know. Yeah,

551
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 1: so um, one thing with the snort. In particular, if

552
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: you do hear a giraffe snort, it means that it's

553
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 1: spooked and it's it's saying, oh my gosh, basically as

554
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: it's running away, but it's also alerting it's fellow giraffes

555
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 1: as well. And apparently giraffes are easily spooked enough that

556
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 1: they're kind of like an early warning signal for the

557
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: other animals on the savannah that they've spotted a lion.

558
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: So they're easily spooked that they also can see really

559
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: really well over very long distances, and because of that

560
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: height advantage, they can see even further, so if a

561
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 1: giraffe starts running, the other animals are like, I'm out too.

562
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 1: Well yeah, and not only that, and this is so cool.

563
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 1: I love it when animals work together like that. But

564
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 1: it goes even deeper. Uh. If you look up tick

565
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: bird on giraffe, just google that stuff. You're gonna see

566
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 1: a giraffe hanging out with these little birds all over

567
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 1: its back and neck and their buddies. They have a

568
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 1: symbiotic relationship. And what happens is the tick bird or

569
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 1: it's called an ox pecker because they do this on

570
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,879
Speaker 1: other animals as well. But they basically sit on top

571
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: of these animals and they eat bugs in the coat. Uh,

572
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 1: they kind of pick their nits and they warn the

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00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:28,240
Speaker 1: giraffe like they might see a lion and make their noise.

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00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,439
Speaker 1: I don't know what it sounds like. All right, they'll

575
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 1: do that, and then the giraffe in turn snorts and

576
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: takes off. So in a sense, the tick bird is

577
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 1: sort of warning everyone on the savannah that the lion

578
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: is coming around. Poor lions think it's such a bad rap. Yeah, yeah,

579
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: but they got to eat, you know. It's just it's

580
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 1: just one of those things. It's the circle of life.

581
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 1: It is. Nobody likes seeing a lion chowing down on

582
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 1: an antelope or running after a family of of antelopes.

583
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 1: They like to see lions and alligators or crocodiles fight

584
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 1: each other. Yeah, because then it's a fair fight. Sure,

585
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: you know I'm talking about Oh yeah, but we did

586
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,759
Speaker 1: talk about the giraffes fighting each other for the ladies. Uh.

587
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: And they do this with uh those accones you know

588
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 1: when you look, I guess you you know, might want

589
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 1: to call them horns, but they're called acicones. The two

590
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 1: and it's not always too, don't they have more than

591
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: that sometimes so no, they'll have two accones. But then

592
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,879
Speaker 1: they get these calcium deposits to protect against the head butts,

593
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 1: and it looks like they have more horns. Like you're

594
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,720
Speaker 1: kind of showing off at that point. Yeah, you really

595
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: went a little far with the horns, man. Um. So

596
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 1: they as as the giraffe matures too, like they'll have

597
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,839
Speaker 1: that little kind of tufted hair patch of hair at

598
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 1: the top and that starts to fade a little bit

599
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,919
Speaker 1: as that it's replaced by the calcium deposits. That the

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00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:51,359
Speaker 1: neck gets strong and upright and everything. And apparently young

601
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 1: giraffes become um, young male giraffes become young men like

602
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 1: giraffes as they're growing up by emulating their the giraffes

603
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 1: that they see in real life. Um, and they'll act

604
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 1: like they're tough or whatever and go like, you know,

605
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: pull pull the girl's hair or something like that. And

606
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 1: then when they're the actual like adult male giraffes, the

607
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 1: bulls are what they called come around. The kids just

608
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: suddenly just go back to being little kids like nothing nothing,

609
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 1: I wasn't doing anything but they're almost practice at first

610
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 1: by emulating their they're grown ups. Yeah, it's pretty neat. Um,

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00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: Like you said that, the males are called bulls. The

612
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: females are called cows uh, calfs or what they have

613
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,840
Speaker 1: when they make a little baby uh and when they mate,

614
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 1: the cow has a gestation period about fourteen months and

615
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 1: then um. You can look up on YouTube and see

616
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 1: a video of a calf being born, and it is

617
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 1: something else to see because a six ft tall, hundred

618
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:03,280
Speaker 1: and fifty pound giraffe, which is tiny by their standards,

619
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 1: will kind of be pooped out of the back of

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00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: the mom giraffe while the mom's just standing there. It'll

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00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 1: flump and fall on the ground like a little lump,

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00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 1: which is all cute and sort of amazing looking, and

623
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 1: then like a bunch of really other gross stuff comes outright.

624
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 1: That's that's what you need to be just aware of.

625
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 1: If you watch this video, you can just stop it.

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00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,439
Speaker 1: There is what I would recommend, but there's a there's

627
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: a lot of afterbirth. There's one thing you know when

628
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 1: you're young giraffe is don't look up. Yeah, never look up. Yeah,

629
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 1: And while you're on YouTube, go look at baby giraffe

630
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: learning to stand and walk, because it's amazing. They do

631
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 1: it really quickly, about an hour later. But um, as

632
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 1: with any mammals first steps, it's it's one of the

633
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 1: most adorable things you can witness. It's a little shaky,

634
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: little shaky, yeah, but instead of taking you know, months

635
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 1: or you know however long it takes for for human

636
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: babies to learn to walk, like an hour is all

637
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:04,280
Speaker 1: it takes. And one reason probably the reason why giraffes

638
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 1: can walk that quickly after being born is because they

639
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 1: are huge targets for predators out on the savannah. Yeah,

640
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:16,879
Speaker 1: it's like super sad. Uh. Only about one and four

641
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 1: infant giraffes survived that first year, Yeah, which is a

642
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a that's a big milestone in a

643
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 1: giraffe's life because you made it to to your first year,

644
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 1: and after that you're starting to grow to the to

645
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,320
Speaker 1: the point where I think by age three to six

646
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,359
Speaker 1: they're fully mature. So if you make it to your

647
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:38,800
Speaker 1: first year, you're you're gonna be able to survive probably

648
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 1: longer and longer. Your chances of survival increase tremendously just

649
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: because of the size. The size you're getting to but

650
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: making it to that first year is very tough. And

651
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 1: it's at that first year also that they wean. They

652
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 1: I think they nurse for like the first year and

653
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 1: then start eating leaves after that. Yeah, and um, So

654
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: for many years they thought that mama drafts might be

655
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,880
Speaker 1: a little cold hearted because a lot of times they

656
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 1: would see the mama draft leave the calf behind for

657
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 1: this very vulnerable young calf for extended periods. But what

658
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 1: they now think, thankfully, is that the mama giraffes are

659
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 1: just they're not neglected at all. They're really social, uh,

660
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 1: and they're going out to look for food and stuff,

661
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 1: and the job of the baby calf is to just

662
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 1: lay down sometimes for a whole day and be as

663
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: quiet as possible until mama returns. And mama will return right.

664
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: But that seems to me is um. That's probably one

665
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 1: of the reasons why the mortality rate is so high

666
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 1: among giraffe calves is that they're tiny. Their mothers leave

667
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 1: them and they just expected to lay there quietly on

668
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: the savannah until they return a day later. Yeah, but

669
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,399
Speaker 1: they do like the other I mean, the the only

670
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,279
Speaker 1: other thing they could do is walk around with mom,

671
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 1: which makes them more vulnerable. Yeah, I guess that's a

672
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 1: good point, you know, so that mama based he says,

673
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 1: you hide here, be quiet. I know you want to

674
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:05,719
Speaker 1: run and play and you might want to snort, but

675
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 1: there's bad things out there. They're hungry lions, and so

676
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 1: I'll be back, trust me. Yep. So um, they like

677
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 1: you said, they do come back. But because of that,

678
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: they like I think you said. The scientists for a

679
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 1: long time, but what's wrong with giraffe moms are the

680
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 1: worst of the worst. Um. But they have found again

681
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 1: through recent study that now giraffes actually seemed to demonstrate

682
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: um grief, like prolonged grief, even um when they lose

683
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 1: a calf. And there was one um mother giraffe who

684
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:42,359
Speaker 1: lost a calf to a predator and stayed at that

685
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: spot for four days and didn't eat anything and was

686
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: actually consoled it appeared by two other female giraffes who

687
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: were friends. So they they are not neglectful, cold hearted mother.

688
00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 1: They're not like Joan Crawford's of the Animal Kingdom. Now,

689
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 1: I told Emily that fact this morning, and she literally

690
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: like started crying so bad. All right, So we mentioned

691
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:10,920
Speaker 1: that they eat plants, um that is exclusively drafts or

692
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 1: herbivores MIKA. So that means they only eat plants. They

693
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,439
Speaker 1: don't eat meat, and what they really like to chow

694
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 1: down on they eat seeds, They beat fruits and branches

695
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:24,319
Speaker 1: and things. But they really love our mimosa trees and

696
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 1: especially Acacia trees. That is what their main meals consist of. Right,

697
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: And again they kind of look like these things that

698
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 1: they're eating, at least in their camouflage pattern. And because

699
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: their tongue is prehensile, meaning you can go grasp stuff, right,

700
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 1: they they are able to kind of circumnavigate like the

701
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 1: thorns that are part of Acacia trees and Mimosa trees

702
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 1: um and just kind of pluck these great leaves without

703
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 1: getting um stuck by the thorns. And their lips are

704
00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: also prehensile too, so it's like on their face around

705
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:04,359
Speaker 1: their mouth, they have two hands that are just going

706
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:08,800
Speaker 1: to town sorting through through these trees and um in

707
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:10,919
Speaker 1: eating the leaves off of them. Yeah. I think that's

708
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 1: why when you see a giraffe there, so they have

709
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 1: so much personality because that mouth. Yeah, I think that's

710
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,319
Speaker 1: part of it. Also, those eyelashes are not hurting things

711
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 1: at all. It's very very expressive. Uh. So for their size,

712
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 1: they eat hundreds of pounds of leaves a week, which

713
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 1: you think, like, man, that's a lot of leaves. But

714
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 1: for their sizes, they have a uh that's not a

715
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 1: lot of food. They have a very efficient internal system. Um.

716
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 1: Sometimes they can live on as little as fifteen pounds

717
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 1: of foliage per day, which isn't a lot of food

718
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 1: for an animal that can weigh up pounds, right, Yeah,

719
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 1: it's like seven kilograms for our Canadian friends. That's for

720
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 1: the rest of the world except for Liberia. Uh. What's

721
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 1: the deal with the cud? So they're ruminant's right, like

722
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:57,840
Speaker 1: a cow um And that means that they eat their

723
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 1: their leaves or flowers or what over there eating and

724
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:04,799
Speaker 1: then uh, it passes through four different chambers of their

725
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,839
Speaker 1: stomach and then it comes all the way back up

726
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 1: through their stomach, all the way back up their neck

727
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 1: into their mouth. Basically, they throw up the leaves that

728
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:15,839
Speaker 1: have now been turned into cud, and then they chew

729
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:19,799
Speaker 1: on that some more and then swallow it again. That

730
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,880
Speaker 1: makes them a ruminant and actually I believe it makes

731
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:27,800
Speaker 1: them um kosher as well. Really, yeah, I saw that somewhere.

732
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:31,239
Speaker 1: That does not mean that you should go eat giraffes though,

733
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 1: Oh what's wrong with people? Uh? And then finally they're

734
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 1: they're wonderful adaptation uh that I think is one of

735
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 1: the best is um because they're out there in the

736
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 1: dry subster here in Africa. There's not a ton of

737
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 1: water around, uh, and certainly a giraffe leaning down and

738
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:53,400
Speaker 1: drinking water could be very vulnerable, especially to a crocodile.

739
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:57,360
Speaker 1: They can go weeks at a time without drinking, and

740
00:43:57,400 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 1: they get most of their water and the moisture that

741
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: they to survive from those plants that they're Yeah, it's

742
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 1: pretty astounding amazing so um because they're doing all of this, uh,

743
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: this eating of tree tops and all of that, not

744
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 1: just the tree tops, but just about anywhere on the

745
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 1: tree they'll they'll eat from it. They're actually doing a

746
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 1: lot of other things too, um. And usually herbivores, you know,

747
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 1: they they play some pretty good role in in their ecosystem,

748
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 1: but giraffe seem to be like really integral to their

749
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 1: ecosystems as well, just because of their really long neck

750
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 1: and they're reaching places that other animals can't reach, so

751
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 1: they have um a big impact on the ecosystem as

752
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 1: far as keeping it like healthy and and running smoothly basically. Yeah,

753
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:48,280
Speaker 1: it's kind of like bringing a wildlife management pruning system

754
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 1: in there, right. That's you know, fift eighteen feet tall.

755
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:55,399
Speaker 1: And while they're eating, they are distributing seeds all over

756
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 1: the place pooping, yeah, pooping out those seeds so they

757
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 1: can serve of his uh pollinators even Yeah, pretty amazing

758
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: the little acacia tree seeds go. Thanks a lot for

759
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:13,360
Speaker 1: the ride, that's right. As far as their conservation status, uh,

760
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 1: they're not endangered, which is good news. Yeah, but are

761
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:19,840
Speaker 1: they not? I mean, just think about this. I don't know.

762
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 1: Over the past fifteen years, they've declined by to um

763
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:27,320
Speaker 1: around eighty thousand from a hundred and forty thousand, which

764
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 1: is a troubling number to me for sure. I just

765
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,920
Speaker 1: don't know exactly what it takes to become endangered. I

766
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:37,760
Speaker 1: don't either. But but most of that um, that loss

767
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:42,320
Speaker 1: of the girafts fifteen years, they lost maybe sixty thousand

768
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 1: out of a hundred and forty thousand drafts are are

769
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:49,840
Speaker 1: gone now, mostly due to poachers or yeah boo maybe

770
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 1: booze of all booze. Go to the poachers, um and

771
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 1: then their their ecosystem. Their habitat is being lost because

772
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 1: trees are being cut down for everything from developments to

773
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:05,920
Speaker 1: um crop land boo again. And if they don't have

774
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: their well we we kind of do need crop land.

775
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: But yes, agreed, there's when it affects drafts like that

776
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:16,840
Speaker 1: boo um. But even beyond that, apparently the giraffe tail

777
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 1: is used for all sorts of stupid stuff. They frankly,

778
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 1: you don't need to kill a giraffe for you can

779
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 1: just if you really need the tail hair, just cut

780
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 1: the tail off, you know, like, if you're gonna do that,

781
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: at least don't kill the giraffe first, maybe sedated and

782
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 1: surgically remove it or something. But cheez, yeah, I wouldn't

783
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 1: even go that bar well, sure right, just don't don't

784
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 1: remove the tail. Yeah, you can make a fly whisk

785
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:48,399
Speaker 1: or a bracelet out of something else exactly, but that's

786
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 1: that's what they use them for, bracelets and flyer whisks.

787
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:55,360
Speaker 1: And because of all this bad stuff, Uh, Mika, you

788
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:57,440
Speaker 1: will be glad to know that June one has been

789
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:00,359
Speaker 1: declared World Giraffe Day. Is the longest day the year

790
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:03,280
Speaker 1: and they have awarded that day to the tallest animal.

791
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:06,439
Speaker 1: So now there are there's a lot of awareness going

792
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:09,319
Speaker 1: on and efforts underway and a lot more studying than

793
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 1: has ever been done before to help preserve the future

794
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 1: success of the giraffe. Yep, thankfully. Yeah. Oh and I

795
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 1: also want to go on record, Yes, we realized that

796
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:23,719
Speaker 1: flies spread disease in Africa and that fly whisks are

797
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:26,919
Speaker 1: actually pretty valuable. Like Chuck said, you can make fly

798
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 1: whisks out of other stuff. And maybe it's incumbent upon uh,

799
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:32,479
Speaker 1: some of us here in the West to make sure

800
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:34,760
Speaker 1: that the people who need to fly west in Africa

801
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 1: get the synthetic one so that the giraffes are left

802
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:39,319
Speaker 1: out of the loop. There, how about that? And I

803
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 1: think that sounds great. So you got anything else right now?

804
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:45,920
Speaker 1: I have nothing else? All right, Well there's giraffe Mika.

805
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 1: Thanks for the idea. Uh and since I said thanks,

806
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:58,760
Speaker 1: it's time for Chuck. Yes, that is correct. Administrative details

807
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:06,479
Speaker 1: okay everyone, administrative details. If you were new to the show,

808
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 1: it is a segment wherein we thank uh listeners for

809
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 1: the really neat, wonderful things that they send us. That's

810
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:15,759
Speaker 1: one of the great things about doing what we do

811
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:19,120
Speaker 1: is people are kind hearted and loving and we'll send

812
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 1: us uh, send us stuff. Agreed. So let's start Chuck

813
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 1: all right first on the list, because we forgot him

814
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:30,799
Speaker 1: last time. Our old buddy Greg Storkin came to see

815
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: us in Denver, Colorado, right I think so yeah, and

816
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 1: he sent us some whiskey. And Greg, Uh, you are

817
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:41,840
Speaker 1: one of our our long time listeners, and man, we

818
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:43,840
Speaker 1: thank you from the bottom of our hearts for sticking

819
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 1: with us and for the whiskey. Yes, and Chuck, there's

820
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 1: another one that, um yeah, thank you Greg. There's another

821
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:54,719
Speaker 1: one we missed last time too, Lucas Uh and the

822
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 1: rest of the crew from Penelope, which is a charming

823
00:48:57,080 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 1: restaurant at Lexington and thirty in Manhattan. They sent us

824
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:05,400
Speaker 1: a wonderful care package of stuff from Penelope. So thank

825
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:08,160
Speaker 1: you guys, finally, at long last for that. That's right,

826
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:09,880
Speaker 1: And speaking of whiskey, might as well go ahead and

827
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 1: shout out our buddies from the Greatest Generation podcast, Adam

828
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:16,400
Speaker 1: Pranica and Ben Harrison. Uh. If you don't listen to

829
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 1: that show, it's really good. If you're a Star Trek

830
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: Next Generation fan, or even if you're not. That's the

831
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:24,520
Speaker 1: best thing going for you. Uh. And they sent us

832
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 1: some what was it what house whiskey from Brooklyn? Yeah,

833
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 1: it was good stuff. Oh did you already dive into that?

834
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:34,760
Speaker 1: Oh it's it's long gone. Okay, let's see. How about

835
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 1: Tim Lazaroff send us a bunch of Wegmans organic ketchup.

836
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:43,359
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, Tim. He also he also griped on

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Speaker 1: email that we hadn't thanked him. So Tim, hold your horses. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Testy's old oddities. Uh. They sent us toddler gifts and

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Speaker 1: dog gifts, which we always appreciate, little bat costumes and

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00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:02,920
Speaker 1: dolls for bat observation. Yes, it's very very cute. I

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Speaker 1: put it in my daughter's room and she loved it. Yes,

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Speaker 1: thank you for that. And got a costume right, Yes

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Speaker 1: she did. She looks adorable in it too. I need

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Speaker 1: to post a picture of it. Tell totally. Um, but

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Speaker 1: I'm afraid that somebody will kidnap her. Well, yeah, then

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Speaker 1: don't do that, right, So uh, I have a correction.

847
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Speaker 1: Also from last time, we thanked Matt drag Or for

848
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 1: sending his homebrew beer, but he we hadn't tried it yet.

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Speaker 1: Remember it turned out to be kalua. He made homemade kalua. What? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: don't you remember? It's amazing. I don't remember that. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if I had that. It was good. It's

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Speaker 1: in that green bottle that Jonathan Strickland's faces on. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Sarah Lopez Big Banks, she sent from scandalous scarves. Uh

854
00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: sent scarves for our wives after we made fun of

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00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:53,920
Speaker 1: Infinity scarves on our live show. Right yeah, with somebody

856
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:58,319
Speaker 1: wearing an Infinity scarf right there, I was. It was uncomfortable. Um.

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Speaker 1: Thanks a million to Christina who gave of us freestyle

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Speaker 1: embroidered sampler portraits of us at the Chicago show. You remember, Yes,

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Speaker 1: they're amazing. Uh, Shot Tower Gin. We we love our

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00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 1: gifts of spirits, so Shot Tower Gin. I cannot remember

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Speaker 1: the person and I feel terrible about that, but big

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00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 1: shout out to shot Tower Gin. Uh yeah, yeah, do

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Speaker 1: write in and let us know so we can thank

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Speaker 1: you a second time. Thanks to Robin and Mother Dirt

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Speaker 1: for sending us all the great skincare stuff is much

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Speaker 1: appreciated and well received. Thank to Ben And I could

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Speaker 1: not read the spelling. It's either clerk or cloak. He

868
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 1: sent us a very cool and solvable. Very key for

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Speaker 1: a maze. Stuff you should know maze. And uh, I've

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Speaker 1: never tried to design a me, so it was pretty

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00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:53,920
Speaker 1: neat seeing that. Um, let's see. Cody Deet sent us

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Speaker 1: a copy of his book Spheria. And also while I'm

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00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:59,759
Speaker 1: on John M. Hamilton's sent us a copy of his

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00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 1: book book Hell called Ohio. He thought I would appreciate that.

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00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 1: In particularly Argentina, Coy invited us to her wedding to

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Speaker 1: Dustin Notedge, so we could not come, but we always

877
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 1: appreciate wedding invites. Yes, um Daria from Happy Socks in Sweden.

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00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 1: I had no idea that Happy Socks was out of Sweden,

879
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:27,040
Speaker 1: but she sent us a bunch of happy socks appropriately enough,

880
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 1: and and they're awesome. Yeah, you love your happy socks.

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Speaker 1: Mr Jack Ramsey sent US's graphic novel called Skit City

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00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:37,839
Speaker 1: and this thing is awesome. Uh, look up skit City

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00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 1: online s k I T City. Uh and it's really

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Speaker 1: really great. Yep. And Brigitte for the cut out drawing

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Speaker 1: of me with my lovecraft book. I love that. That

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00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 1: was very cool. Yeah. Who else do we have here? Um?

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00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:54,880
Speaker 1: Now I thought it would be Rebecca, but I swear

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Speaker 1: it was an end, So I'm going with Renika more

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Speaker 1: Shell sent us her young adult time travel novel The

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Speaker 1: Mender M E N D E R. Check that out,

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00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 1: and uh, you want to save the rest for the

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00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:12,239
Speaker 1: next episode. Yeah, we're gonna continue this with a part two.

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Speaker 1: How about that? All right, let's do it. So in

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Speaker 1: the meantime, if you want to get in touch with us,

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Speaker 1: you can tweet to us at s Y s K

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Speaker 1: Facebook at Charles W. Chuck Bryant, or Stuff you Should Know. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you can send us an email the Stuff podcast at

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Speaker 1: how stuff Works dot com and it's always hang out

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