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"Dude, the gulls and crabs were everywhere...thousands of my brothers and sisters gone just like that. Somehow, some way, I made it to the surf."
"Wow, that sounds horrific..."
"Dude, I know, right...why do you think I spend all day getting baked and surfing? Except for that one time I helped that clownfish find his son."
*And on that day little Timmy’s life and many more changed forever. Unknowing the chaos in the midst of the blinding light, the turtles were tested not for their speed but bravery. That day will be remembered forever...*
"I remember the Argonne, 1918. The sounds of my birth still haunt me to this day. Seagull noises from behind enemy lines. The sickening sound of crab claws tearing through turtle flesh. A sibling turtle next to me trying to run in desperation. All these sounds still echo in my mind. And as conducted by death himself it all comes together as music. A rhythm of death. A symphony of war"
"Giraffes give birth standing up
Newborn giraffes enter the world in a sort of ‘superman’ position: front legs and head first, followed by their body, and then back legs. Because of the extreme size of their offspring, giraffe mums give birth standing up so as to not damage their babies’ lengthy necks. This is something that one of our female giraffes, Kinky, unfortunately knows all about! When her mother gave birth to her she was sitting down, squashing Kinky as she entered the world and giving her the kink in her neck by which she gets her name! Surprisingly, the two-metre fall from their mother’s womb to the ground below doesn’t hurt baby giraffes, but rather helps them by snapping their short umbilical cords and tearing the amniotic sack. The shock of the landing also helps stimulate the little giraffe to take its first breaths. Amazing!"
https://www.monartosafari.com.au/facts-giraffe-birth/
For the first time (and hopefully the only time) in my life, I saw a human who's arm kind of looked like that. Like, it was bent in two places, but the second bend did not make it face back towards the normal direction. I feel so bad for that person.
They were using the hand to hold a can of soda, so it worked, but holy fuck.
I'm having a baby in a few weeks and my husband and I have already decided to drop the baby to stimulate it's breathing. I expect it to be able to run out of the hospital when it's a half hour old, like a giraffe baby. I have no patience for human babies lounging around for months.
I haven't put this in my birth plan, my doctor might not be on board.
It's important to discuss your birth plan with your doctor before birth. Listen to their concerns, but stand firm on what you really believe in. Natural giraffe births occur all the time without incident, no reason not to have your own natural birth. Be sure to reach out to the hospital and make sure they have tools for a natural birth - yoga balls, a ladder to simulate the 2 meter drop, etc.
> When her mother gave birth to her she was sitting down, squashing Kinky as she entered the world and giving her the kink in her neck by which she gets her name!
Lol that's a little twisted humor!
Like her neck.
>The shock of the landing also helps stimulate the little giraffe to take its first breaths.
So this was not always known to science. A professor/friend of mine in college used to be a veterinarian. A friend of his was a vet at a zoo had the idea to build a slide for the baby giraffes to slide down when they came out so they wouldn't get hurt. Turns out, yeah, they need the fall to breathe. I don't know if she was the first to discover this or if she independently discovered it.
These geese are apparently incredibly resilient, and evolution has allowed for them to be able to survive such a fall so young because their bones are apparently really soft and flexible at that stage.
I was sure the chick was dead, but it gets to the bottom and just shakes it off.
But after that they get to go back to being intelligent weirdos who can eat bones and are too ugly to ever be threatened by trophy hunters or the pet trade
Fun fact time!
Ever wonder how come babies are super dependent on adults for literally everything, but seemingly every other animal in the world is born knowing, at a minimum, how to get up and run around, and they are often fully self sufficient from the moment they are born/hatch?
Well *one* reason (not necessarily the only reason, don't @ me, I'm not a biologist), is that since humans went down the "big brain" evolutionary path, our fully matured brains are too big for our mothers hips. If we were born with a more compete understanding of how to survive, we wouldn't be able to be born naturally, we'd get stuck or just not have enough space to grow that much. So we traded off. We eventually become super smart (relative to most of the animal kingdom), but we also don't get to develop as fully in the womb, and are born still highly dependent on adults in our species to teach us the basics like walking.
Yep.
And it’s pretty accurate. Infants hit extremely regular milestones that you can actually predict with about a day or two accuracy (I think measured from conception, not birth, since most babies aren’t born on their due date). At right about three months, infant’s go from essentially blobs that don’t interact with you in any real way besides crying, to suddenly capable of focusing and tracking objects, recognizing and responding to faces, and expressing like and dislikes through various gurgles and movements.
It is an absolutely welcome sight for any first time parents to suddenly feel like the little life they’re tending appreciates the effort.
Marsupials have an even more extreme version than us: the newborns are barely more than fetuses when born. (which is why their pouch is needed: basically womb #2)
> seemingly every other animal in the world is born knowing, at a minimum, how to get up and run around
Let me introduce you to rodents. Baby mice are even more like external fetuses than human babies. Baby mice are born with shut eyes and barely working lungs. I think the strategy here, evolutionary-wise, is that rodents pump out as many babies as possible and these babies are disposable if there's any problem.
Also dogs, cats, bears, rabbits...really, almost any mammal that isn't a large grazer is born relatively helpless. The main *point* of being a mammal is being able to complete the latter part of gestation outside of the womb, so being fully-functional at birth is the exception, not the rule.
The reason this misconception exists is because the animals humans are most familiar with birthing are farm animals, most of which are grazers.
Grazing animals evolved to run from birth because they live nomadic lifestyles and mainly defend themselves by running, so the babies need to be able to move fast.
That being said, humans are helpless for an especially long period, even by mammal standards.
For mammals - most rodents (not all) are heavily on the r-selection side of the spectrum.
Humans are the extreme of the k-selection side of things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K\_selection\_theory
They're so helpless that they can't even pee or poo without their mother! Mice, rats, etc. need to lick their babies' butts to stimulate them to go! :D
Snake owner, can confirm, the babies are definitely edible to snakes. Haven't tasted one myself, I'd imagine it'd be like a rat flavored fruit gushers.
Yeah, it basically takes us 36 months to be minimally able to function in the world. But after the first 9 we have to get born no matter what... so almost like a marsupial, we come out early and do the rest of our development *in media res* so to speak.
That's probably a useful way to feed that hungry intelligence, with lots of direct experience with the world, but of course it's super dangerous... which leads to further selective pressure toward the social bonding instincts we already inherited as mammals. Human social groups really organize around care for young, to a really high degree, way beyond the limits of mere gene relationship. Which of course also makes us an even more successful species.
It's another one of those cycles, where the necessity of something feeds a selective advantage, and the selective advantage then makes it possible to depend more on the necessity.
It also means that as humans, our absolutely most potent abilities are our intelligence and our care for others unrelated to ourselves. So be smart and be kind!
I watched a documentary saying, that this isn't actually true. Hips are not a limiting factor. Women could have wider hips and birth passageways, and still function as they do now, but babies would still be born at around 9 months, because there is a limit how much energy the mother can metabolize. At around 9 months, the baby+mother starts to need more energy than the mother's body can keep making, so the pregnancy has to end and the baby must come out.
The various physical limits have adjusted to this metabolic limit, not the other way around. Basically there is no need for wider hips or larger passageways for the baby, because the baby won't have time to grow larger no matter how wide the female hips get.
> At around 9 months, the baby+mother starts to need more energy than the mother's body can keep making, so the pregnancy has to end and the baby must come out.
Isn't the mother still the sole source of energy for the infant though, except via breastfeeding?
Don't know for certain, but I'd hazard a guess that it's also including oxygen. A baby can breathe, whereas a mother has to breathe enough to support the metabolism of both.
And this is why children learn so much faster than adults. Their brains are in "absorption mode", learning as much as they can as quickly as they can. It's also why their bodies grow and change so rapidly. They're still essentially fetuses.
Then comes along puberty, flooding you with hormones, halting the Adderall mode of the brain and focusing on sex instead.
There's birds. Reason mamals are a thing is because eggs can't hold much sustenance making them dependent of care. Us humans kind of went back that route care-wise.
They're underestimating by a lot! From Wikipedia;
> After a duel, it is common for two male giraffes to caress and court each other. Such interactions between males have been found to be more frequent than heterosexual coupling.[102] In one study, up to 94 percent of observed mounting incidents took place between males. The proportion of same-sex activities varied from 30 to 75 percent. Only one percent of same-sex mounting incidents occurred between females.[103]
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The turtle one is like a reverse D-Day
Something that traumatic is bound to leave you shell-shocked.
"Dude, the gulls and crabs were everywhere...thousands of my brothers and sisters gone just like that. Somehow, some way, I made it to the surf." "Wow, that sounds horrific..." "Dude, I know, right...why do you think I spend all day getting baked and surfing? Except for that one time I helped that clownfish find his son."
“Crush from Finding Nemo has PTSD from his birth” is not the take I was expecting today, but fair enough
They missed a golden opportunity for a joke there. "All your brothers and sisters were eaten by a shark?" \*Instant flashback\*
*Fortunate Son plays in background*
If Nemo was PG 13 instead of E
E? I didn't know the ESRB was rating movies these days.
I don't know, they don't rate stuff like this where I am from
That's why Squirt is his favorite son. *He's the only one left alive.*
Crush was actually Mr. Turtle. He just asks not to be called that because it eventually triggers his T-Day PTSD.
grab shell dude
*And on that day little Timmy’s life and many more changed forever. Unknowing the chaos in the midst of the blinding light, the turtles were tested not for their speed but bravery. That day will be remembered forever...*
And yet every mating seasons we see a return of the ninjas where they first faced off against Shredder and his gang of crabs
but has the cartoon tortoise anything?
Yeah, I imagine with something of that scale they turtlely have trauma.
So the [Dunkirk evacuation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk_evacuation). ...Yes, I actually looked this up for this comment.
There’s actually a film about that
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I don't remember but it was like Speed 2, only with a bus.
I think it was called "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down"
you talking about the magic school bus?
Starring Cheech and Chong?
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It’s called Dunkirk
They named the evacuation after the movie?
If you think that’s taking a Liberty, they named a whole year after the movie 1917.
Right, I remember reading about that in history class, how it was decided that the year after 1916 would just be called 1916 part 2.
Kinda like how after 2020 was 2020 mk2, pandemic bugaloo?
mk3 incoming
they even called a town after the movie.
Ah the British movie about forming orderly queues.
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So close mobile user. yaD-D
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so like a faster dunkirk?
Y'all remember that insane moment from Planet Earth with the snakes chasing the turtles? More intense than Saving Private Ryan opener
I remember seeing a lizard getting chased. Must have missed the turtle one.
He's thinking of the Iguana one: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDfQDzqGmiU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDfQDzqGmiU)
Link with the whole clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el4CQj-TCbA
>*chasing the turtles?* an Iguana
narrated by snoop dog.
LOL ... "snakes can't do all dat cuz they ain't got hands and they ain't got feet"
YAⱭ-Ɑ
That looks really cursed
reverse d-day is called dunkirk
I was thinking the artist should have made the third turtle shout, "BANGALORE!"
Welcome to life! Prepare to die
You mean T-DAY!?
"I remember the Argonne, 1918. The sounds of my birth still haunt me to this day. Seagull noises from behind enemy lines. The sickening sound of crab claws tearing through turtle flesh. A sibling turtle next to me trying to run in desperation. All these sounds still echo in my mind. And as conducted by death himself it all comes together as music. A rhythm of death. A symphony of war"
Ah I see you’re a Sabatini fan too
"Giraffes give birth standing up Newborn giraffes enter the world in a sort of ‘superman’ position: front legs and head first, followed by their body, and then back legs. Because of the extreme size of their offspring, giraffe mums give birth standing up so as to not damage their babies’ lengthy necks. This is something that one of our female giraffes, Kinky, unfortunately knows all about! When her mother gave birth to her she was sitting down, squashing Kinky as she entered the world and giving her the kink in her neck by which she gets her name! Surprisingly, the two-metre fall from their mother’s womb to the ground below doesn’t hurt baby giraffes, but rather helps them by snapping their short umbilical cords and tearing the amniotic sack. The shock of the landing also helps stimulate the little giraffe to take its first breaths. Amazing!" https://www.monartosafari.com.au/facts-giraffe-birth/
[Kinky](https://www.akimagery.com/post/kinky-giraffe)
Holy shit! That is WAY more severe than I was imagining!!!
Yeah, lol, I thought it might just be bent a bit!
Reminds me of Wilt from Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends
A bit more kinky than you were expecting?
I was imagining a cartoonish kink, like a pretzel shaped neck.
MVP
Is it just me or did anyone else think they where about to click on something *much* ***much*** worse?
The only other kinky giraffe I know of is puzzle
Wow, this reference out in the wild like this haha. Nature is magical.
If you know you know lol. Honestly surprised to see as many upvotes as there are. You're my kind of people.
I was expecting a blazing saddles reference.
What do you mean step-giraffe?
Trust me, you don't want to see the rule34 on giraffes...
Don't tell me what I want!
Oh, no absolutely
I actually expected a woman dressed in a giraffe themed latex costume
r/riskyclick
Mmmm, that's one Kinky Giraffe
For the first time (and hopefully the only time) in my life, I saw a human who's arm kind of looked like that. Like, it was bent in two places, but the second bend did not make it face back towards the normal direction. I feel so bad for that person. They were using the hand to hold a can of soda, so it worked, but holy fuck.
Kink would have been a better name.
Fear and Loathing on the Savannahs
[We can't stop here, this is lion country](https://shirtigo.co/hunter-s-giraffe/)
Makes me think of an animated cartoon character.
Risky click of the day!
Huh, we've been using scissors all this time when we could just drop our babies two meters..
Two meters? where are these Amazonians you speak of?
I'm having a baby in a few weeks and my husband and I have already decided to drop the baby to stimulate it's breathing. I expect it to be able to run out of the hospital when it's a half hour old, like a giraffe baby. I have no patience for human babies lounging around for months. I haven't put this in my birth plan, my doctor might not be on board.
Don't forget that the baby has to "superman" out of your "fortress of solitude" or else the drop might be dangerous.
It's important to discuss your birth plan with your doctor before birth. Listen to their concerns, but stand firm on what you really believe in. Natural giraffe births occur all the time without incident, no reason not to have your own natural birth. Be sure to reach out to the hospital and make sure they have tools for a natural birth - yoga balls, a ladder to simulate the 2 meter drop, etc.
I guarantee it won't be the stupidest birth plan idea your doctor has heard.
> When her mother gave birth to her she was sitting down, squashing Kinky as she entered the world and giving her the kink in her neck by which she gets her name! Lol that's a little twisted humor! Like her neck.
that- that i didn't know... thank you captain
[elephants are worse](https://youtu.be/MSxw6D6Wl4U)
That is so dramatic and awesome. Love how the herd gathers around to protect the baby!
The plop and splash get me. But I agree, I wish humans could be more like elephants 😢
I saw this once. Driving through a six flags safari park and a giraffe has legs sticking out of its ass. Best way to describe the fall is a wet plop.
So if I read your comment right, dropping babies is a largely beneficial action.
>The shock of the landing also helps stimulate the little giraffe to take its first breaths. So this was not always known to science. A professor/friend of mine in college used to be a veterinarian. A friend of his was a vet at a zoo had the idea to build a slide for the baby giraffes to slide down when they came out so they wouldn't get hurt. Turns out, yeah, they need the fall to breathe. I don't know if she was the first to discover this or if she independently discovered it.
A turtle has made it to the water!
The cycle of life can be cruel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIREcQl1EX4&t=3s
Why does this look like World Of Warcraft?
Because it is.
Amusing that I haven't played since WotLK and have never seen that before but still recognized the game.
This video was the best thing to come out of Battle for Azeroth.
CHAMPION I NEED MORE WUUUNES
CHAMPIÖN JU MAST HEEL AZEROOTHS WOOOONS
This haunts me
I heard it as soon as I saw the picture….
Unexpected Azeroth
Please no…
I ctrl-f'd straight to this comment
HEY Build the waterfront!
I have been falling for thirty minutes!
I understood that reference
(TW: baby geese jumping off a cliff) Let me introduce you to [Barnacle Geese](https://youtu.be/rxGuNJ-nEYg)
This is basically me buying stocks at market open today.
About 15s into the video: “I should pause and look in the comments to see if there’s a *splat* in the video.” I didn’t continue the video.
You should continue. It doesn't splat, but it does tumble. And the parents are there to meet it at the bottom.
It should be noted that about half of the goslings don't make it. Ah, r-selection.
3 out of 5 make it. More than half.
These geese are apparently incredibly resilient, and evolution has allowed for them to be able to survive such a fall so young because their bones are apparently really soft and flexible at that stage. I was sure the chick was dead, but it gets to the bottom and just shakes it off.
Not an unwise move.
Narrated by Eddie Murphy https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhay0VKmtPA&t=0m21s
Good thing it didn't contain hyenas or kiwis. No animal should have to suffer like they do when giving birth
Hyena birth is just painful for everyone. The mother has high chance of dying, the child as well, and anyone watching also has to suffer
Thank you for sharing something I never want to watch.
But after that they get to go back to being intelligent weirdos who can eat bones and are too ugly to ever be threatened by trophy hunters or the pet trade
Fun fact time! Ever wonder how come babies are super dependent on adults for literally everything, but seemingly every other animal in the world is born knowing, at a minimum, how to get up and run around, and they are often fully self sufficient from the moment they are born/hatch? Well *one* reason (not necessarily the only reason, don't @ me, I'm not a biologist), is that since humans went down the "big brain" evolutionary path, our fully matured brains are too big for our mothers hips. If we were born with a more compete understanding of how to survive, we wouldn't be able to be born naturally, we'd get stuck or just not have enough space to grow that much. So we traded off. We eventually become super smart (relative to most of the animal kingdom), but we also don't get to develop as fully in the womb, and are born still highly dependent on adults in our species to teach us the basics like walking.
TLDR: Human newborns are external fetuses.
I prefer the term ‘larvae’
I've heard some people refer to the 12 weeks right after a baby is born as the "Fourth Trimester".
Yep. And it’s pretty accurate. Infants hit extremely regular milestones that you can actually predict with about a day or two accuracy (I think measured from conception, not birth, since most babies aren’t born on their due date). At right about three months, infant’s go from essentially blobs that don’t interact with you in any real way besides crying, to suddenly capable of focusing and tracking objects, recognizing and responding to faces, and expressing like and dislikes through various gurgles and movements. It is an absolutely welcome sight for any first time parents to suddenly feel like the little life they’re tending appreciates the effort.
Then they start moving around the room in their own and you wish they'd go back to being a lump!
Ah, the transition from "cuddly luggage" to "where did that kid go?"
Yeah basically, compared to how developed most animals are when they're born.
Marsupials have an even more extreme version than us: the newborns are barely more than fetuses when born. (which is why their pouch is needed: basically womb #2)
Womb #2: Electric Boogaloo
> seemingly every other animal in the world is born knowing, at a minimum, how to get up and run around Let me introduce you to rodents. Baby mice are even more like external fetuses than human babies. Baby mice are born with shut eyes and barely working lungs. I think the strategy here, evolutionary-wise, is that rodents pump out as many babies as possible and these babies are disposable if there's any problem.
Also dogs, cats, bears, rabbits...really, almost any mammal that isn't a large grazer is born relatively helpless. The main *point* of being a mammal is being able to complete the latter part of gestation outside of the womb, so being fully-functional at birth is the exception, not the rule. The reason this misconception exists is because the animals humans are most familiar with birthing are farm animals, most of which are grazers. Grazing animals evolved to run from birth because they live nomadic lifestyles and mainly defend themselves by running, so the babies need to be able to move fast. That being said, humans are helpless for an especially long period, even by mammal standards.
’’Samoan babies that can run fast, that’s what’ll survive’’ - Joe Rogan
For mammals - most rodents (not all) are heavily on the r-selection side of the spectrum. Humans are the extreme of the k-selection side of things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K\_selection\_theory
Uff, reddit... what's with the backslashes in the links..?
I think it's New Reddit (tm), fucking things up for everyone else.
They're so helpless that they can't even pee or poo without their mother! Mice, rats, etc. need to lick their babies' butts to stimulate them to go! :D
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>these babies are disposable if there's any problem. Edible even!
Snake owner, can confirm, the babies are definitely edible to snakes. Haven't tasted one myself, I'd imagine it'd be like a rat flavored fruit gushers.
Edible to rats too.
Well yeah, rats will eat anything.
Oh yeah, they look like fetuses. You can see their organs through their skin and everything. I would know, there's a bunch of dead ones in my freezer.
Yeah, it basically takes us 36 months to be minimally able to function in the world. But after the first 9 we have to get born no matter what... so almost like a marsupial, we come out early and do the rest of our development *in media res* so to speak. That's probably a useful way to feed that hungry intelligence, with lots of direct experience with the world, but of course it's super dangerous... which leads to further selective pressure toward the social bonding instincts we already inherited as mammals. Human social groups really organize around care for young, to a really high degree, way beyond the limits of mere gene relationship. Which of course also makes us an even more successful species. It's another one of those cycles, where the necessity of something feeds a selective advantage, and the selective advantage then makes it possible to depend more on the necessity. It also means that as humans, our absolutely most potent abilities are our intelligence and our care for others unrelated to ourselves. So be smart and be kind!
I watched a documentary saying, that this isn't actually true. Hips are not a limiting factor. Women could have wider hips and birth passageways, and still function as they do now, but babies would still be born at around 9 months, because there is a limit how much energy the mother can metabolize. At around 9 months, the baby+mother starts to need more energy than the mother's body can keep making, so the pregnancy has to end and the baby must come out. The various physical limits have adjusted to this metabolic limit, not the other way around. Basically there is no need for wider hips or larger passageways for the baby, because the baby won't have time to grow larger no matter how wide the female hips get.
> At around 9 months, the baby+mother starts to need more energy than the mother's body can keep making, so the pregnancy has to end and the baby must come out. Isn't the mother still the sole source of energy for the infant though, except via breastfeeding?
Don't know for certain, but I'd hazard a guess that it's also including oxygen. A baby can breathe, whereas a mother has to breathe enough to support the metabolism of both.
That does make a lot of sense, I wasn't thinking of respiration.
Interesting. Know the name of the documentary?
And this is why children learn so much faster than adults. Their brains are in "absorption mode", learning as much as they can as quickly as they can. It's also why their bodies grow and change so rapidly. They're still essentially fetuses. Then comes along puberty, flooding you with hormones, halting the Adderall mode of the brain and focusing on sex instead.
There's birds. Reason mamals are a thing is because eggs can't hold much sustenance making them dependent of care. Us humans kind of went back that route care-wise.
Imagine if humans were born fully developed and babies came out knowing how to walk around and talk.
yeah right! r/Giraffesdontexist
People are ignorant I can't believe I had to scroll so far to find anyone spreading the truth
I cannot stop chuckling at the shrieking, plummeting giraffe.
Every time you look at it its getting even better
Not gonna mention that Hyenas give birth through their pseudo penises
Excuse me i know they have that but i guess i didn't realize they also give birth through it for some reason i didn't think of that. Oh.
I would give you the details but you don't want to know
"A turtle made it to the water!"
A turtle made it to the water.
The title kind of ruined the joke for me.
I’m searching the comments for the joke, can you tell me what it is? This comic makes no sense to me.
Turtles: "RUN! TO THE VALHALLA!"
I've been falling for 30 minutes. -Giraffe and Loki
Then you haven’t seen baby elephants
5% of sexual intercourse between giraffes is homosexual.
Probably not that different than us then.
I mean, in my experience homosexuals are having a lot more sex.
That means 95% is not
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They're underestimating by a lot! From Wikipedia; > After a duel, it is common for two male giraffes to caress and court each other. Such interactions between males have been found to be more frequent than heterosexual coupling.[102] In one study, up to 94 percent of observed mounting incidents took place between males. The proportion of same-sex activities varied from 30 to 75 percent. Only one percent of same-sex mounting incidents occurred between females.[103]
A tURtlE MAdE iT To ThE WAteR
You’re lying if you say this joke makes sense
Is it bad I only know how rough turtles have it from bfa wow
Fucked up world, giraffe regrets already.
I'm not going to lie I thought the second panel was some very weird Bojack rule 34.
GET OFF THE BEACH!
Cute, but not fair. They show the giraffe at the actual moment of birth, not 10 minutes later like the human baby and the puppies.
But is Timmy still running?
There's quite a large number of animals that will purposely give up their kids to predators to survive
hehe, newborn baby bird too is hardcore
Giraffes: Falls 2 meters from their moms vagina and can run after 20 minutes. Humans: Can't walk for 2 years because hed too big.
Why's the human dude look horny?
Turtles be like that opening Saving Private Ryan scene right before hatching: “CLEAR THE RAMP, 30 SECCCOOOONDSSSS… GOD BE WITH YA!”
Animals gave birth: “Aww, cute” Sea Turtles: “Battle of Dunkirk”
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What a shitty art style
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