The horn-like knobs on a giraffe’s head can be a deadly lightning rod

By Joshua Rapp Learn

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All over a freak rainstorm on 29 February, two giraffes had been struck by lightning in Rockwood, a conservation location in South Africa. While it might perhaps perhaps well perhaps furthermore seem unsurprising that the tallest animals on this planet face this hazard, scientists had never described this incidence in any ingredient except now.

“It got here as moderately of a shock to me because the full day modified into moderately peaceable in climate, and there modified into this immense storm,” says Ciska Scheijen, a conservation scientist at Rockwood who had been following a …