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Necks for sex or food: Giraffes stand to gain

2022-10-08

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Evolution of the giraffe neck was originally proposed as an adaptation to foraging at the tops of acacia trees, but this theory has been overshadowed by the “necks for sex” hypothesis that proposed that long necks evolved via sexual selection associated with male neck fighting. The necks for sex hypothesis predicted that males would have longer necks than females and that their necks would continue to grow through...

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Literature Corpus work: b5d1f402-5941-523e-a678-6c1d67973c03
DOI: 10.22541/au.166522867.78036289/v1

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