Giraffes are 30 times more likely to get hit by lightning than people
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
OK now give us tall people's probability as well. I am curious
Have we tried running copper strips down the side of their necks?
How about the fact that humans live all across the world, even in places where you don't really have lightnings?
Wouldn't we have to compare the number of humans hit by lightning, only in the areas where giraffes live?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_lightning
The articles only compares to humans in the US... This is very unscientific especially comming from this media!
While that's true and what I'm about to say could be legend rather than reality, I grew up being told that giraffes also tend to go to the top of a hill during storms, making them more likely to be struck by lightning.
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.
Ah, the new Lemmy giraffaroo?
It's the old !lemmaroo@lemmy.world at this point.
You can edit your giraffaroo to point to this link: https://feddit.org/comment/1716202
Hold my can of beans!
We should start a chain on Lemmy
can we catapult people in order of their current wealth hoarding?
Only into an active volcano
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.
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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?
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
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 surprising to me, I grew up in a rural area where deer far outnumbered people. Also you'd think despite their small size the sheer number of rodents in the wild would increase the biomass by more than that. There are large amounts of the earth that is still uninhabited by humans, in mountains, cold climates, islands and keys, oceans, lakes, etc. I'm sure the scientists are right, I'm just shocked.
Also take 30x longer to clear their throat. Human: Ahem. Giraffe: Ahem ahem ahem ahem ahem ahem...
This is mostly caused by Africans wiring up giraffes for use as aerials to pull in distant TV stations.
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.
If you didn't wire your giraffes like this I don't know how you made it past apprenticeship and into the union. Imagine.
Who’s out here punching giraffes?
RFJ JR
Kyle.
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.
This is why we find lots of well preserved dynosours.
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.