mentions the animal with the shortest mating time. Many people may not imagine it to be a giraffe. The mating time of giraffe is very short, only 1 second each time.
Although the mating time is short, they have made a lot of preparations for this 1 second.
Giraffe mating
For wild animals, every day of life is a race against death, because they will not only face various energy shortages, but also encounter natural enemies eyeing each other.
We know that giraffes have long necks, which helps them look into the distance and discover natural enemies in time. But long neck also brings them one disadvantage, that is, blood pressure is very high and the heart is relatively large. This will cause the giraffe to be unable to be excited, tired, and run for a long distance. Once the fatigue is too high, it will cause the giraffe to die from heart failure and .
However, when animals mating, they will inevitably turn their attention to their natural enemies to their spouses, causing them to approach themselves without knowing them. When they are discovered, they die of heart failure due to poor running or long-distance running. Therefore, many individuals with longer mating time have been eaten by natural enemies, and those who are left are individuals with shorter mating time.
Although giraffes have short mating time, they have prepared a lot of work before this to improve their conception rate.
First of all, giraffes will practice this movement between homosexuals before adulthood. In fact, this behavior between homosexuals is not a unique behavior of giraffes. However, when other organisms engage in homosexual cross-border behavior, they mostly determine their status, such as: dogs.
But the giraffe is just pure play. Scientists have found that even if the same-sex rides on the giraffe, the giraffe will not obey the other party’s orders because of this, and it is more like a meaningless behavior.
In addition, male giraffes will compete with other same-sexes during the female giraffe in estrus and eventually gain the favor of females.
Because male giraffes have short mating time, in order to pass on their genes as much as possible, male giraffes will sniff the female's urine with their tongue and nose.
Male giraffe will first touch the female's buttocks with her head to prompt the other party to urinate. At this time, the male will turn up his upper lip, collect the temperature and other information in the urine smell, and judge the female's estrus status.
Once the other party is found to be in the ovulation period , the male will follow them tightly and look for the time to mate.
We know that giraffes have longer limbs and are heavier in weight. In addition, their behavior is performed when standing, so females choose to avoid when they are under pressure from males, so there is not much time left for males to mating.
plus the environment in which they live is surrounded by natural enemies. Long mating time will increase the possibility of being captured by natural enemies, so males will complete this process as soon as possible.
Giraffe’s miserable life
Although the giraffe has long legs and neck, the life of the giraffe is very miserable.
First of all, they can't sleep comfortably in their entire lives. Even if they are too sleepy, they can only sleep standing. This is not because sleeping on the tummy is uncomfortable, but because giraffes have so long legs that it takes about 1 minute each time they get up, during which time they have the potential to be captured by carnivores.
Secondly, they sleep very short and mostly in light sleep. This is also because once they sleep well, their perception of their surroundings will decline, making them easily captured by carnivores.
In addition to sleep, drinking water is also one of the most dangerous moments for giraffes. Giraffes have very long legs and necks that they do not drink water like other animals, and then lower their heads to drink water, but instead spread their limbs and drink carefully.
This in turn causes carnivores to die due to insufficient dodging.
Due to the insecurity of the external environment, giraffe offspring must learn to escape when they are just born. We know that human babies need to be cared for by adults for a long time after birth, but the offspring of giraffe learns to stand up and run with their mother within an hour of birth.
Although they are young, carnivores do not treat them as children, but treat them equally with adult individuals and will destroy them once they encounter them.
It is precisely because of this that a considerable number of giraffes cannot survive until adulthood. Even giraffes who live to adulthood cannot survive until the day of death due to aging.
Summary
Many behaviors of animals are not controlled by themselves, but are reproductive strategies that have to be adopted due to the environment and natural conditions of their lives. The reason why giraffes mating time is short is actually because they live in an environment that is not as safe as humans. In addition, males can accurately judge the female's conception period and improve the conception rate.
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