I know this is totally random...

[logansrogue]

But giraffes are kinda awesome.

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[angriest.livejournal.com]

One of the coolest things I have ever seen is a herd of galloping giraffe at a safari park.

Very high blood pressure though - most giraffes apparently die of heart attacks.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

They're just so friggin' TALL. You go for years not thinking about it and then you sort of forget, and take a fresh look at a giraffe and think, "Holy shit, that is one WEIRD but AWESOME looking animal!" It's taller than it is long. I love it.

I did not know that about their blood pressure, but it makes perfect sense. I wonder if people millions of years from now, possibly cat hominids or apes or bird people or what-the-fuck-ever, will look at giraffe skeletons and think, "You know, they couldn't have had those necks in an upright position, they'd have had heart attacks from the blood pressure."

[sir-devans.livejournal.com]

You know that one of the earlier theories of evolution (pre-darwin) reckoned that they grew to have the long legs and necks because they spent so much time reaching for tall foilage. Like if a family of people had the same tattoo done in the same place every generation they would eventually be born with it!

[sir-devans.livejournal.com]

Only if the skeletons are massively incomplete.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Ugh. My cat did a poo. Then she proceeded to dig up every shit in her poo tray to really bring out that eau de shite.

[angriest.livejournal.com]

Giraffes are also awesomely funny trying to drink from puddles of water. Their tongues are *so freaking long*.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

The problem is that I'm too sick to clean it as often as it should be clean. It's odor-free stuff, so most of the time you don't smell a thing. It's just when she digs, it aggravates the molecules and BAM. Stink! I'll need to dig out the poop today.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Giraffes trying to do anything other than eat out of trees is pretty hilarious, really. It's like, "Shit, I evolved my way up here and now I'm freakin'... STUCK!" I would assume mating would be a challenge. Watching them use their tongues to get to leaves is really amusing, actually. Almost as amusing as watching an elephant try to get it in.

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

Giraffes totally rock!!

[shantari.livejournal.com]

Giraffes amazed me as a kid because they didn't fit in. I mean every other species of animal, I could in some way say was related to another species of animal. Seals are related to sealions, tigers are related to lions, and so forth. I had a book about ancient mammals, and wondered if the altocamelus might have been a common ancestor for both camels and girafes, but in the book it said only camels.

And then as an adult I find out that they're a form of cow. Now that I did not see coming.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Aren't they BRILLIANT!? I love their knobbly heads.