🦄 How are unicorns fake but Giraffs are real? 🦒 Like, what's more believable? 🤔 A horse with a horn, or a leopard-moose-camel with a 40 ft neck? 🤷
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TheRealBarbossa · 36-40
Supposedly unicorn used to be real until they went extinct...
But yes, Giraffs are a very weird animal...
Wild Giraffe supposedly barely ever sleep for more than 30 mins, usually sleeping for 5 mins or less throughout the day...
Also, the blood pressure changes in Giraffs heads is absolutely crazy and needs a special valve to protect its brain when it's head goes down to drink water. As the head needs to much extremely pressure to get the blood up to the brain while it's standing, but when it puts that head down below it's body to drink water, it would then all rush to the brain and explode the brain if not for that special valve.
But yes, Giraffs are a very weird animal...
Wild Giraffe supposedly barely ever sleep for more than 30 mins, usually sleeping for 5 mins or less throughout the day...
Also, the blood pressure changes in Giraffs heads is absolutely crazy and needs a special valve to protect its brain when it's head goes down to drink water. As the head needs to much extremely pressure to get the blood up to the brain while it's standing, but when it puts that head down below it's body to drink water, it would then all rush to the brain and explode the brain if not for that special valve.
@tenente Breaking down real Unicorns from history (spoiler: they were hairy rhinos)
But now from where the Unicorn myths likely came from, NOT the animal above, but instead likely Indian Rhinos stories and Narwhal tusks
Unicorns as graceful, magical white horses of fairy tales never existed, but a real-life prehistoric animal nicknamed the Siberian unicorn did roam the Earth.
The Real "Siberian Unicorn"
What it was: A massive, shaggy mammal named Elasmotherium sibiricum that looked more like a giant, furry rhinoceros than a pony.
Size: It grew over 4 meters (13 feet) long and weighed around 4 tons.
When they lived: Fossil discoveries show these creatures survived until about 29,000 to 39,000 years ago, meaning they shared the planet with early humans.
The connection: While it had a single large horn on its forehead, it bore little resemblance to the elegant horses in modern storybooks.
The Real "Siberian Unicorn"
What it was: A massive, shaggy mammal named Elasmotherium sibiricum that looked more like a giant, furry rhinoceros than a pony.
Size: It grew over 4 meters (13 feet) long and weighed around 4 tons.
When they lived: Fossil discoveries show these creatures survived until about 29,000 to 39,000 years ago, meaning they shared the planet with early humans.
The connection: While it had a single large horn on its forehead, it bore little resemblance to the elegant horses in modern storybooks.
But now from where the Unicorn myths likely came from, NOT the animal above, but instead likely Indian Rhinos stories and Narwhal tusks
Origins of the Myth
Ancient accounts: Early writers like the Greek historian Ctesias described single-horned beasts in India, which historians believe were based on travelers' tales of the Indian Rhinoceros.
Narwhal tusks: During the Middle Ages, traders sometimes sold long, spiral narwhal tusks as real Unicorn horns.
Ancient accounts: Early writers like the Greek historian Ctesias described single-horned beasts in India, which historians believe were based on travelers' tales of the Indian Rhinoceros.
Narwhal tusks: During the Middle Ages, traders sometimes sold long, spiral narwhal tusks as real Unicorn horns.
Straylight · F
AlienTheExtraterrestrial · 41-45, F
@Straylight This tradition should replace Santa Claus
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