RE: Giraffe evolution
October 6, 2012 at 10:55 pm
(This post was last modified: October 6, 2012 at 10:56 pm by IATIA.)
(October 6, 2012 at 8:17 pm)Red Celt Wrote: The idea that a giraffe's neck is long in order to reach the top of trees has been debunked. They reach down to eat the leaves that are fresher at the bottom of the trees.
The fresher leaves are at the end of the branches and the tops of the trees. However, we do not know where the leaves were several million years ago in relation to the giraffes at the time. it may also be a combination of the ability to reach out of reach leaves and view predators.
Albeit I am fully confident with evolution as a process, our knowledge is based on extrapolation of fossils and the observations of today's animals and they may differ significantly. It was only recently that we determined that birds had descended from dinosaurs and that probably a large number of dinosaurs were feathered, including T-Rex.
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