i'm not suggesting that giraffes would be smart enough to do this, if they had the physical ability to. i think this would be very hard for a giraffe to do, with the funky neck and awkward legs and stuff. maybe not - just a guess.

but it got me thinking about it.

i mean, if a few okapi-like giraffe ancestors could figure something like that out then it may have been intelligence that would have been selected for rather than something physical.

it just goes back to the idea that there's so much randomness inherent in evolution that very specific tests are required to figure out what's actually being selected for.

elephants are fucking brilliant by the way, if you don't know that.