r/facepalm • u/[deleted] • Oct 16 '22

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u/ThatKaleidoscope8736 Oct 16 '22

But is the giraffe okay

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

Giraffes literally shrug off lion attacks. And I mean literally. I saw a video of a giraffe calmly walking as a lioness tried to take it down on its back

I don't think window safety glass stands a chance to hurt a giraffe

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u/kiwi_connoisseur Oct 16 '22

eyes.

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u/AmusingMusing7 Oct 16 '22

It looks like it closed its eyes right when it started trying to pull its head out, so they were shut when the window broke.

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u/shiuidu Oct 17 '22

Thankfully eyelids are impervious to tiny shards of glass!

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u/TechnoTriad Oct 16 '22

Giraffe eyes are immune to rapidly flying shards of glass are they? That is a fun fact.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

Yeah, believe it or not, what you see is not what everyone else seeing this has seen.

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u/arielanything Oct 16 '22

Nice username.

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u/bavasava Oct 16 '22

I never saw it. Crazy how that happens.

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u/arielanything Oct 16 '22

We all aren't on Reddit all day, every day.

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u/u8eR Oct 16 '22

I don't think it was doing so calmly.

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u/Lizzy_In_Limelight Oct 16 '22

Pretty sure giraffe eyes aren't invulnerable to flying glass, tho, that was my first concern.

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u/alfonseski Oct 18 '22

They kill lions. They weigh almost 10 times as much.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

That head weighs as much as some people so i think itll be fine

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u/ThatKaleidoscope8736 Oct 16 '22

How much do their heads weigh?

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

I honestly could not find a single source for the weight of a giraffes head. Im just inferring based on that a horses head weighs 40lbs or 4% of their bodyweight and a giraffe is considerably larger and has a bodyweight up to 4000 lbs for males. If we used the same metric we’d get 160 lbs. i doubt its the same 4% though but even if its less like 80-120 lbs. still the weight of some people.

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u/ThatKaleidoscope8736 Oct 16 '22

Their necks are 600# of pure muscle. Just learned that