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  2. The Strange Way Giraffes Fight - AOL

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    Known as “necking” the giraffes use their long and powerful necks to attack, delivering hard blows with each hit. As you watch the video, you can hear the loud whacks coming from the neck ...

  3. Heterochrony - Wikipedia

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    Giraffes gain their long necks by a different heterochrony, extending the development of their cervical vertebrae; they retain the usual mammalian number of these vertebrae, seven. [1] This number appears to be constrained by the use of neck somites to form the mammalian diaphragm muscle; the result is that the embryonic neck is divided into ...

  4. Giraffe - Wikipedia

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    Thus, these nerve cells have a length of nearly 5 m (16 ft) in the largest giraffes. [77] Despite its long neck and large skull, the brain of the giraffe is typical for an ungulate. [79] Evaporative heat loss in the nasal passages keep the giraffe's brain cool. [53] The shape of the skeleton gives the giraffe a small lung volume relative to its ...

  5. Focus on research: Female giraffes drove the evolution of ...

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    A Penn State researcher has been trying to get to the bottom of the age-old question of why giraffes have long necks. Focus on research: Female giraffes drove the evolution of long necks, new ...

  6. Evidence of common descent - Wikipedia

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    In mammals, its path is unusually long. As a part of the vagus nerve, it comes from the brain, passes through the neck down to heart, rounds the dorsal aorta and returns up to the larynx, again through the neck. (Fig. 2f) This path is suboptimal even for humans, but for giraffes it becomes even more suboptimal. Due to the lengths of their necks ...

  7. Hiker in South Africa Learns the Hard Way Why Not to ... - AOL

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    They also will 'swat' with their extremely long and strong necks. Male giraffes become aggressive during mating season. If giraffes sense that their babies (calves) are in danger, they will attack ...

  8. List of examples of convergent evolution - Wikipedia

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    The sauropods and giraffes independently evolved long necks. [72] The horned snouts of ceratopsian dinosaurs like Triceratops have also evolved several times in Cenozoic mammals: rhinos, brontotheres, Arsinoitherium, and Uintatherium. [73] Rhynchosaur teeth resemble that of the extant rodents.

  9. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Giraffes Necking

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    Male giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis), such as the two pictured here, often engage in necking for various reasons, including combat and competition over females. Males with longer necks and heavier heads are at an advantage in duels and thus have greater access to estrous females, suggesting that the giraffe's distinctive long neck may be a ...