When it comes to sparring over mates, giraffes - unlike the average human bar brawler - tend to pick on rivals their own size.
They also can be right- or left-handed, with the difference more or less evenly split among giraffe populations.Mogalakwena River Reserve in Limpopo between November 2016 and May 2017.The study, by UK master's student Jessica Granweiler, hoped to shed light on how giraffes form social hierarchies with the hope of helping to conserve the endangered mammals.
“At the individual level, sparring was most often observed between young adults, and between individuals that were evenly matched in size,” Granweiler wrote. Giraffes spar in either head-to-head or tail-to-tail orientation, with previous research suggesting that the head-to-tail fighting was more intense as well as having a sexual overtones.
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