This is mostly caused by Africans wiring up giraffes for use as aerials to pull in distant TV stations.
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2025
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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.
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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.
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.
This is why we find lots of well preserved dynosours.