Everything We Knew About Giraffes Was a LIE...

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]WHAT IT DO, BABY? TODAY, WE'RE LEARNING ABOUT how weird giraffes are from Casual Geographic. Let's get into her.

[00:00:07]clicked on this video cuz now you're going to find out what giraffes sound like. You went your whole life thinking they don't make a sound, but you got giraffes they do.

[00:00:19]Oh my god. WHAT IS THAT?

[00:00:24]THAT SOUND LIKE A LEVIATHAN. What the [ __ ] is that? A giraffe. I know [clears throat] it's a giraffe. I'm just saying, like, you know?

[00:00:31]>> You used to think giraffes were like the G in Lasagna or post-2011 Osama, dead silent. And scientists swore [laughter] that animal with that neck situation would be physically incapable of generating enough airflow to say anything audible. Moral of the story, sometimes you got to mind the business that pays you. And it wasn't until someone was in the business of paying researchers to mind the giraffes and they heard the humming of Hoist the Colors from the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack. Over the course of 8 years, they recorded nearly a thousand hours of audio of giraffes in zoos. And they found that giraffes will hum to each other in the dead of night. Although, if they would have listened to the locals, they would have found out sooner cuz over 100 residents in Paignton complained of a creepy droning sound coming from the zoo's giraffe house.

[00:01:09]Sounds that folks were claiming were making them physically sick to the point where they made a petition to incite an investigation. And the zoo both declined to comment, but also said it wasn't a giraffe, but also said their lawyers would be looking into it. Gee, I thought you said no comment. So, you know this study must have been vindicating. As for the Zarafa, we now know what does a giraffe say, but we still don't know why. It could be how giraffes keep track of each other at night. Maybe it's our beast with a trachea to LeBron's long snores. Maybe it's a demonic giraffe that's >> to LeBron's long.

[00:01:38]THAT LONG, BRO. GOD DAMN, BRO.

[00:01:43]DO YOU KNOW what sucks? Giraffes are so large, bro. They have no way to cover themselves when it rains. Yeah, basically. They just be out there just taking it. Just taking it.

[00:01:53]>> Or maybe it's like birds where it to us, there's no meaning, but to them the intentions are rated. And that is only the surface of how weird this walking didgeridoo is. You have no idea how Same giraffe size a concept. Like you might not realize the closest you can get to Jeff Goldblum's wet dream is by rage baiting the tallest animal alive.

[00:02:10]That'll earn you a one-way ticket to Jurassic Park.

[00:02:13]>> seem real. to that active, one of the consequences of being the tallest is despite a motivated giraffe nearly breaking 40 mph, they're sentenced to life of running the way we do in dreams.

[00:02:23]They could be running from certain death, but damn it, they're going to look majestic doing it. It's They They really Bro, they don't exist.

[00:02:30]>> They Like you ever go to the What's the last time you went to the zoo? A few years ago?

[00:02:34]>> Like you you see the giraffe when you went there? Like you get You get up there and you're like, "Hey yo, what the [ __ ] is that thing?" Like you know what it is, BUT YOU'RE LIKE, "DAMN." AND THEN you you know the ones you can feed? You have a fed a giraffe where they If you go to the aquarium, they got where you can feed the giraffe, but you walk You have to walk upstairs and they take you to the window. THE [ __ ] HEAD.

[00:02:54]>> [laughter] >> THAT [ __ ] JUST IT'S LIKE "DAMN, [ __ ] DON'T EAT ME." LIKE DAMN.

[00:03:00]TO BE FAIR, IF YOU MAKE A GIRAFFE DO ALL THAT, I'M ON HIS SIDE. You definite You You deserved it. Another consequence is this video right here. This video went viral cuz it was the first time many realized that an animal with a neck longer than the prohibition has to take inclement weather right to the face. Fun fact, giraffes don't use slurs. But the day we learn how to ask ONE HOW TO SAY "HELLO" in Giraffeese, they'll start.

[00:03:20]But nature didn't completely leave them out to dry.

[00:03:23]I mean, obviously. Now, but they do have a trick in plain sight. Those iconic giraffe patches also have a network of blood vessels. It's like a built-in thermostat where they can expand at least one to stay cool during the heat of day, but can also constrict and hold heat in times like when they have to walk out in the rainstorm. Also, the nature of being the tallest means it's actually more dangerous for them to lay down in the rain than just stand up to the storm. Now, the chances a giraffe gets struck by lightning are very, very low. They're still 30 times more likely to get touched by Thor than a human.

[00:03:51]Now, the chances they get electrocuted on power lines is slightly higher. To be fair, that's human intervention and poor design.

[00:03:58]Especially cuz having a NECK AND LEGS REALLY COMES WITH PROBLEMS NOTHING ELSE CAN RELATE TO. Giraffes have one hell of That's sad. The [ __ ] didn't even be like, "Huh, there's giraffes in the area. Maybe we should Maybe we should Maybe we should build these a little higher, you know? I'm sorry, bro. Mikey, you should know this.

[00:04:15]You lived in Africa when you >> [laughter] >> I I just Some things are just What you doing?

[00:04:27]childhood. And it starts with them getting dropped 6 ft flat on their face.

[00:04:30]>> Oh my god.

[00:04:32]OH.

[00:04:37]>> [screaming] >> AH, IT'S IT'S NATURAL, BUT DAMN, I don't I don't know my whole life without seeing that. Hey, deal, okay? That [ __ ] come out That [ __ ] come out Not only hit his head AND THEN DROPPED.

[00:04:50]>> [laughter] >> YEAH, DEAL, OKAY? JESUS.

[00:04:54]ALSO, as babies, we had doctors to slap us into breathing. Giraffes get the ground to their at 6 ft 220 lb. Does a raf a cafa can find its feet in only 30 minutes. But they get reintroduced to the ground several times in the process.

[00:05:08]And in only a few hours, the baby giraffe can run and stride [music] with its mother, which isn't a luxury cuz there are many things to run away from as a Yeah.

[00:05:16]Yeah.

[00:05:18]More than half will get snatched BY ACTUAL PREDATORS. MORE MORE. Not half.

[00:05:24]More than half. So, most of them get snatched up straight out the gate. Damn.

[00:05:31]This mother been taking some battles, too. Jesus. will defend them to the death. And a kick from over 2,000 lb of motivated motherhood will leave a lion lying on the ground.

[00:05:39]>> here.

[00:05:41]Their sharp hooves decide to Damn lion.

[00:05:43]Give me that [ __ ] >> [laughter] >> GIVE ME THAT ASS.

[00:05:47]MOTHER WILL LEAVE A LION LYING on the ground.

[00:05:49]>> Right in the booty hole.

[00:05:50]>> Giraffes have hooves the size of dinner plates. That's instant attitude adjustment to any predator. Ooh, that's an concussion. And of COURSE ME BOMB ASS. Somebody [ __ ] bro. What? What she talking about, yo-yo? What? What this video?

[00:06:05]Nah, she ain't [ __ ] Nah, nah, if that's what she Nah.

[00:06:12]Having legs higher than student loans gives them more rings than most animals are ready for. It just sucks when mama ends up being the baby's biggest opp.

[00:06:18]When I said the mother defends them to the death, sometimes she's the one delivering it. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, OH, OH, OH, OH, OH, OH, OH, OH, OH, OH, OH, OH, OH, OH, OH, OH, OH, OH, OH, OH, OH.

[00:06:28]>> [screaming] [laughter] [laughter] >> I'M TIRED OF FIGHTING THESE LIONS.

[00:06:44]YO, YO.

[00:06:47]I HAVE SEEN TOO MANY MOTHERS trying to scare off lions only to end up river dancing on their child. IT JUST KEPT GOING. THE SURGERY was a success, but the patient died. It takes 14 months for a mother giraffe to birth a calf, and only 0.2 seconds to accidentally delete her dependent. I'm not dumb to how hard piloting 6-ft flesh stilts [music] must be. So, not only do it It take 14 months, and a lot of them get eaten by predators or attacked or That's crazy.

[00:07:14]Damn, they make you scared. Amputees shoot with more accuracy than a giraffe with no legs.

[00:07:20]>> [clears throat] >> And that's assuming it's an accident.

[00:07:21]This was straight-up intentional.

[00:07:23]And I still don't know why she did that.

[00:07:25]Things don't get much easier in zoos, either.

[00:07:27]>> "Nah, I'm not a mother." Mothers have accidentally stepped and sat on their own children. So, fatal friendly fires are just another consequence of being tall. Another is that giraffes are one of the few mammals that can't swim, and they play river roulette every time they cross one. And you just know its heart dropped straight to his stomach. Yeah.

[00:07:43]>> And that ain't nothing. That's like a two-story drop. At this point, it really feels like being tall is more trouble than it's worth to the point where you got to ask >> Why are they so tall in the first place?

[00:07:51]The answer might seem pretty obvious, but like the giraffe, it's more controversial and more complicated than you think. The easy answer is to say that giraffes evolved long necks to reach foliage [music] that no other herbivore could. And while that might be true, I do want to clear something up real quick. Evolution is a lot of things, including a word I don't use anymore because I respect women. But what it's not is intentional. Master Oogway might have been a creationist.

[00:08:13]Evolution is a lot of accidents, actually. Basically, it's a random mutation like a slightly longer neck that gave an individual an edge. And with long necks seeing better reproductive success, that random mutation would have a much better chance of getting passed on. After millions, and I do mean millions of years of natural selection, long necks would become the dominant and eventually the only giraffe build. Just a series of events creating something not perfect, but just good enough to keep the wheel rolling. The babirusa literally top [ __ ] >> puts its own dental. But as long as that happens after they have kids, evolution will remain Ray Charles to it. But with giraffes, it seems straightforward.

[00:08:47][music] So much that when you learned about natural selection in school, the giraffe was probably the easiest example. Now, what if I told you we still can't agree on how the giraffe got this way? Every theory seems to have at least one good counter. It's in there. [laughter] He just hit the hit the hit that [ __ ] Hey, well, ain't no trees around.

[00:09:04]>> [laughter] >> The tallest giraffe would have a nutritional advantage. Except the 2010 study showed that in a drought, it was actually the tallest and largest giraffes that died the [music] most.

[00:09:14]Also, some argue that being tall was such a buff, more herbivores would have evolved the same way. Yet the gerenuk seems to be the only one that went down the alt height pipeline. You know, we don't talk about this enough.

[00:09:25]And we really should. This is 100% responsible for a cryptid myth or two.

[00:09:29]Others say >> Definitely. I can see that. I can see that being somebody in the dark like, "What the [ __ ] is that?" Bro, that 100% is the thing that beat up Finn. The uh thing that broke Finn's legs. Oh, okay.

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[00:10:26]Don't tell the government. setting that was the real driving force. A popular theory or whether two. Others say it's the built-in temperature setting that was the real driving force. A popular theory is that animals live by the three F's, and a long neck, if not for food, must be for sex. If it was for female validation, you'd expect the males to have disproportionately longer necks.

[00:10:44]>> Yeah. But even though the males are physically bigger, it's actually the females that have more proportionally impressive necks, which actually led to another theory that the neck work was actually to support the females high metabolic demands while pregnant.

[00:10:56]There's even a theory that the giraffe's neck wasn't even the main feature. That they evolved long legs first and the long neck came after so the giraffe could still reach water. Maybe not the strongest theory, but for sure the funniest. But to me, it's like a combination of things. more like a combination of things driving the giraffe to be what it is now. Except I did leave one thing out cuz even with feeding and forking, there's a third F word that's just as important. In 1996, a long dead relative of the giraffe was discovered in China. Discokeryx xesha looks like the modern version's reflection in a funhouse.

[00:11:25]>> a donkey giraffe? neck and even thicker skull were used to violently headbutt each other. And scientists studying its anatomy say that not only would this half of giraffa have head-butted harder than any other animal, including Man, I hate seeing like the rams hit. Oh my god, I know it's like I know they not really getting as hurt as you would think, but like it's so painful to watch. Yeah. Like ah and it'd be like a It's always a collision. Man. dinosaurs.

[00:11:52]But being built like a sledgehammer and behaving like one is proof that the giraffe's neck was more about fighting than Yeah. And while I'm still sure it was a combination of different pressures Even giraffes fight.

[00:12:02]>> see it being for fighting. Yeah.

[00:12:04]>> seen giraffes fight like two inflatable car sales men in a turban. As goofy as it is Hey. they do damage. That's exactly what those That [ __ ] got knocked. Those are ossicones. Not horns, but ossified cartilage. Basically, if your ears got bricked up no mortar.

[00:12:17]Those ossicones are great for bludgeoning their opponent to death.

[00:12:20]They're also good for fighting.

[00:12:21]They're also good for Not only do the neck got to give out got to give out a punch, it got to take one.

[00:12:28]>> Yeah, it got TO BE MAN, IMAGINE YOU IMAGINE Oh my god. a female in the bladder to make her pee so he can taste test it and assess her avail They're also good for butting a female in the bladder to make her pee so he can taste test it and assess her availability.

[00:12:42]Don't let the lower frame rate fool you.

[00:12:43]Those ossicones genuinely tear each other up.

[00:12:47]That was the winner, by the way. Now, the difference is animals with antlers shed them once a year. That's not blood.

[00:12:52]>> [ __ ] weird. Yeah. That was That was weird.

[00:12:56]That was Now, the difference is animals with antlers shed them >> [ __ ] off.

[00:13:00]>> That's not blood. That's moose velvet.

[00:13:02]Giraffes don't. Not just cuz the cones are fused to their thoracic skull, but also giraffes breed all year round.

[00:13:08]Which means they got to be ready for smoke all year round.

[00:13:11]>> Yeah. Like you don't even know giraffe fights like genuinely goes crazy. Like they have rules. [ __ ] HIS LEG WAY UP THERE.

[00:13:18]HE [laughter] CHEAT. I GOT YOU NOW.

[00:13:20]ONE I'VE ALREADY BROKEN. SO, WE'LL JUST TALK ABOUT the others. Giraffe fights are brutal as hell. It's basically boxing mixed with Mortal Kombat. Watch two bulls trade blows. Eventually, you'll see a giraffe faint, counter, and uppercut. Their fighting style even evolves as they mature. Younger males usually swing for the biggest target, being the ribs or the rump, but older, seasoned bulls often chip away at their match up by targeting the legs. Not only cuz weakening the legs is the fastest way to fell a tower, but a giraffe that gets his leg broken is immediately disqualified from the tournament.

[00:13:49]That's a career-ending injury for a bull. Get that ass the god out of here.

[00:13:53]And then a a lion comes just mauling Just give Yeah, they're done for. Man, [ __ ] Look at it this way. There's a lion pride that's not going to believe their luck. Giraffe fights are so devastating they don't even get to that point. In fact, most times giraffes are weirdly ethical fighters, and I'm so glad I get to talk about that now.

[00:14:09]Giraffes are like baseball players where they have a preference between swinging their neck to the left or the right. And what's crazy is they actually respect each other's preference. In sparring matches, they'll line up head to tail if both fighters have the same preference.

[00:14:22]So, like if two southpaws line up head to tail, both parties get to practice swinging to the left. With the same logic, if one's a southpaw and the other's orthodox, then they'll line up head to head with the right-favoring fighter on the left.

[00:14:33]>> realized >> during a sparring match one giraffe swings too hard and his momentum puts him out of position, both sides will stop, realign themselves, and briefly start again.

[00:14:40]>> is practicing. It's a mutual respect you wouldn't expect from a camel-leopard.

[00:14:44]That's not the only point in the giraffe's code. Giraffes also believe in weight classes. Researchers watching them realized that males will go out of their way to fight opponents as close to the same size as them and will reject matches with males noticeably smaller.

[00:14:57]Instead of an easy win, sparring giraffes will go for the fair fight because skill-based matchmaking is not a human concept.

[00:15:02]>> They want the ones. They want the ones for real.

[00:15:06]>> You know what's weird? Because we did horseback riding, right? And he was explaining how the horses respond to things, and animals don't think like we think, but their natural instincts are so strong that it's still like, I don't know how to explain it. It's still very smart even though it's not the kind of smart. Yeah. They're doing all this without having the same kind of brain.

[00:15:30]It's hard to fathom that.

[00:15:32]>> Yeah. Yeah, it's hard to fathom like they still want to choose like yeah, [ __ ] I still want to spar. No, this ain't no spar, this is a real fight. No, we still fighting over the [ __ ] Like, you know WHAT I'M SAYING?

[00:15:41]>> [laughter] >> THE BAR fight phenomenon where if one pair starts sparring, that seems to get all the other giraffes to start running it. And rarely do you see any giraffe attempt to achieve Arguably, the only question left Older bulls will sometimes interfere with and break up fights between youngerlings. Some say it's the old heads playing referee. I think it's straight hating. I'm not even kidding.

[00:16:01]Older bulls will meddle in fights and I'm sure it's to keep any one male from getting too comfortable and confident cuz a cocky male is a problem for everyone.

[00:16:08]But yeah, that neck and those cones are good for At the zoo?

[00:16:11]Damn.

[00:16:12]Damn.

[00:16:15]DAMN. BRO, HE DOWN. THE FIGHT OVER. BRO, YOU WON. LET HIM BREATHE. YOU WON.

[00:16:20]>> [laughter] >> STOP.

[00:16:21]YOU'RE HURTING HIM.

[00:16:23]YOU'RE HURTING HIM. STOP. [screaming] WAITING ON A BELL. HE'S WAITING FOR HIM TO STOP BREATHING. For the most part, males keep it peaceful. Some say a little too peaceful. There's another interesting fact about giraffes and before y'all get mad at me, all I ask is that y'all hear me out.

[00:16:37]>> Oh, okay. giraffes have a special way of making up after a >> Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait.

[00:16:41]controversy in ways I'm sure the giraffes did not see coming. Giraffe sparring matches have been known to end with the two bulls caressing each other's necks and lightly nudging each other.

[00:16:50]>> Okay. It's believed it's how two males reinforce their bond and standing in the overall [music] group. It's really no different from guys dapping each other UP.

[00:16:55]>> YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. THEY JUST HUGGING IT OUT. OKAY. THAT'S THAT. YEAH, I FEEL LIKE THEY'RE JUST >> THEY WERE ABOUT TO As long as they ain't [ __ ] we good.

[00:17:01]>> [laughter] >> Yeah, I feel They just That's like a All right, we just sparred. All right, my [ __ ] we hugging out type [ __ ] Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's cuz they don't got hands, [ __ ] They got to yeah. pick up basketball game. Basically, I'm good, you're good, we're good. Yeah, WE GOOD TYPE [ __ ] >> [screaming] >> OH MY GOD.

[00:17:20]I MEAN, IS IS THAT'S THAT'S YOU know that's just That's just that's animals being animals, bro. Like that's >> [laughter] >> That's crazy. Like Man, you know what I'm saying? That's That's just that That's just you know what I'm saying? That's just what they do. I JUST [laughter] IT'S JUST WAIT, IT'S LIKE >> SO MAD. I WAS SO MAD. THAT WAS THAT WAS WEIRD.

[00:17:35]>> NO, NO, NO.

[00:17:36]YOU GOT A PROBLEM? NO, NO, NO, NO, NO.

[00:17:38]THAT [laughter] WAS THE PROBLEM. NO, IT'S CUZ we we had already come to terms like oh, that's just [ __ ] HUGGING OUT.

[00:17:45]AND [laughter] THEN HE SAID, "YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT, TOO." AND THEN LIKE STOP.

[00:17:49]>> SO HE SLIPPED IT [laughter] IN.

[00:17:52]YO. THAT'S LIKE IMAGINE SOMEBODY TWO HOMIES WE knew was like, "Yeah, we fought and we hugged it out. Yeah, yeah." And then THEY STARTED [ __ ] WHAT?

[00:18:01]IT'D [laughter] BE CRAZY. I'M NOT AGAINST YO, WHAT YOU GOT, BUT THAT'S CRAZY TO to to pull out of that thin air type [ __ ] You good? We good. That's what I thought until his 4-ft pink lightsaber [laughter] came out and he tried to mount the other. And it's that kind of He did. that people saying, "This portrait mode stretching the neck unicorn is one of the gayest animals out there." Not the right story.

[00:18:21]>> Oh.

[00:18:21]Apparently, a number of these necking competitions come to a conclusion with at least one of the males doing so as well. Sometimes two of them.

[00:18:28]>> SO IT'S NORMAL FOR THEM. SOMETIMES they arrive long after they show up. There was a study done on the social life of the giraffe and in over 3,200 hours of observation, the team witnessed 17 instances of male-on-male mountings. The number of male-on-female was >> One. So not only did they mount the >> One.

[00:18:45]>> [music] >> I'm It's just like shocking to cuz you wouldn't think that it'd be You know what I'm saying? That type [ __ ] It's so gay. I didn't You know, it it matches the way the giraffe looks when you think about it, but like >> What do you mean? Like they got a little like, you know What?

[00:19:00]>> They so um graceful. Got a little zest to it. It's like to drink the water. Like we just saw We just saw my [ __ ] GO HOW MUCH WHAT?

[00:19:09]MY [ __ ] JUST DRINK THE WATER. HE SAID, "AH."

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[00:20:01]This isn't weird. You're making it weird. Why are you making it weird?

[00:20:07]You think this could fit up somebody's ass?

[00:20:12]Yeah, okay.

[00:20:14]I study amounts of witnessing a traditional giraffe couple up once. The math means 94% of the explicit long-neck liaisons were between two males. That's how giraffes became the mascot of Brokeback Mountain. And you've had politicians get [laughter] genuinely heated over the stretch-neck sexuality.

[00:20:29]So, are giraffes >> they fighting? Listen, I'mma give my non-expert online opinion and pray I don't kill me. A lot of animals will mount to flex dominance or to bond. Dogs do it.

[00:20:39]>> Oh, they pulling. Go to any locker room and you might see the football team doing it, and they say it's not gay.

[00:20:43]Male lions might be the most famous for doing it, but it's I think they need TO SEE IT. NO!

[00:20:49]THAT DUDE LIKE, "OH."

[00:20:51]NOT THAT SIMPLE.

[00:20:53]>> [laughter] >> MUFASA.

[00:20:58]WHAT Y'ALL DOING, GAY?

[00:21:01]WHAT?

[00:21:02]>> [laughter] >> I didn't want them to confuse.

[00:21:05]Giraffe male mounting is likely for dominance, and that 94% is probably more about giraffes being rare to witness actually mating in the first place than 90% of giraffes just swinging the other way. I do think it's a little bit of projecting human traits on an animal with no concept of gay like you got to remember we are the only species on Earth that goes out of its way to say pause. Giraffe don't give a [ __ ] well, they might give one. Jokes aside, male giraffes can mount each other without it being sexually explicit. The same way they can taste a female's bladder assets without it you know being into that.

[00:21:34]>> [laughter] >> They might do But these are some interesting [ __ ] >> [laughter] >> Yeah, I like that one.

[00:21:46]That's the one I'm going to mount tonight. [ __ ] this is these [ __ ] nasty. [laughter] I KNOW THEY NOT THEY DON'T THINK like these [ __ ] nasty, bro.

[00:21:55]But I don't mean gay sex without you know being into that. But with a giraffe, they might do gay [ __ ] but I don't mean gay. That's on being an ally.

[00:22:03]But [laughter] like I said, the kosher camel is so much weirder than you think, and that's not a joke. Giraffes are kosher, biblically accurate. Bet your ass on that. How about the fact that we only just found out that there are actually four species of giraffes, [music] and we only know that because a conservation group decided to test their DNA for funsies, and that test showed that the northern, southern, reticulated, and Masai giraffes were all completely different species. In total, there are seven subspecies of the giraffe. Some are endangered, some are critically endangered. See, now you don't took the giraffes for granted. I bet they didn't even tell you that some are silently going extinct. Experts literally call it a silent extinction because while you weren't paying attention, the Kordofan giraffe is silently getting canceled, and the Nubian about to be in past tense, which would be a shame because giraffes are like nothing on Earth.

[00:22:47]Which is another fact. Giraffes have the strangest cousins. The pronghorn antelope is actually more of a giraffe, and the [music] okapi was nature's first day using Microsoft Paint, and it's basically the giraffe of the jungle.

[00:22:58]They're just too weird to not get a video of their own. That's a little bit of what I'm doing in this Drink water, hug your mother, touch grass, [music] hug your father. If you're like me and giraffe dropping is your newest concern, I'm going to be donating to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation. W man. If you'd like to as well.

[00:23:13]>> that hit that hit that description.

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