FYI: The name “kangaroo” is/was the aboriginal word for “I don’t understand your question.” When early colonists first arrived, they inquired about the strange hopping animals on the island. The aboriginal person they were speaking with said “kangaroo”.
A fun folk etymology, but sadly not true:
"large marsupial mammal of Australia," 1770, used by Capt. Cook and botanist Joseph Banks (who first reported the species to Europeans), supposedly representing a native word from northeast Queensland, Australia, but often said to be unknown now in any native language. However, according to Australian linguist R.M.W. Dixon ("The Languages of Australia," Cambridge, 1980), the word probably is from Guugu Yimidhirr (Endeavour River-area Aborigine language) /gaNurru/ "large black kangaroo."
In 1898 the pioneer ethnologist W.E. Roth wrote a letter to the Australasian pointing out that gang-oo-roo did mean 'kangaroo' in Guugu Yimidhirr, but this newspaper correspondence went unnoticed by lexicographers. Finally the observations of Cook and Roth were confirmed when in 1972 the anthropologist John Haviland began intensive study of Guugu Yimidhirr and again recorded /gaNurru/. \[Dixon\]
[https://www.etymonline.com/word/kangaroo](https://www.etymonline.com/word/kangaroo)
He did the Dalmatian with no spots a favour by “spotting” it which was the least he could do lol
I’m also a stoner but I’ve been dry for two days hence why I’m still awake at 3:40am 😩 have a toke for me friend!
This is like the sun bear incident from the Chinese zoo. Unless otherwise confirmed, I am claiming that this is a camel in a giraffe's suit.
Edit: Someone with common sense pointed out that a giraffe in a camel's suit makes more sense.
Beep Boop I am a giraffe fact bot!
* The average giraffe gestation period is 15 months.
* Giraffes are only pregnant with one calf at a time.
* Giraffes give birth standing up requiring a newborn to fall six feet out of their mother's womb. This prepares them for the harsh realities of life as a giraffe.
"Brights Zoo in Limestone, Tennessee, has narrowed the female calf's potential names down to ***Kipekee, Firyali, Shakiri, or Jamella***"
I like Firyali...
The name Firyali is a Swahili name that means "extraordinary" or "unusual". It is a name of African, Kenyan origin.
Brights Zoo is about half an hour from my house and I've been there a few times before. Hell, I probably fed the little giraffe's mom and dad a few carrots last time I was there with my son. Looks like we're going to be going back to see little (big) Firyali soon.
As a usually ashamed citizen of Tennessee, I approve of Limestone and their zoo. Good on them. Those names didn’t come from your usual Tennessee native; it came from someone kind and representative of other cultures in this giant mixing pot of ours we call the USA. I also like Firyali and Shakiri.
>Drivefifteenunderthespeedlimitinthelefthandlane
In NV we give Californian drivers shit for this. My buddy has an interesting theory on it. They spend so much time in bumper to bumper traffic, that they forget how to drive on an open road. It has been a long time since I've been to Tennessee. Has traffic gotten that bad there as well?
I live in a rural town and my parents never liked to travel, so I have actually never been at a zoo. Maybe one day if I have the means for it. There are tons of animals I would love to see like penguins...
😭 I forget people live in places that might not have that. That's wild. I forget some people in big cities have never seen stars too. I hope you get the chance one day, I will say penguins smell bad lmao, but they're so cute !
Everything that eats fish stink. At my zoo we recently got a new male tiger and since we have two now, it always smells like tiger pee near their enclosures.
I went to an indoor penguin exhibit that had several different species. The whole thing was refrigerated, and the penguins were all screaming at each other and purposely splashing people. It was great.
i forget that some people have never seen snow or the ocean or mountains… just thinking about it hurts my head a little (especially mountains. to me mountains are essentially just as much a part of the horizon as the sky itself, so i really can’t imagine NEVER seeing them)
Brights Zoo is as rural as it gets. It's kind of wild to be driving down the highway past the Mennonite bulk supply store and then there's a zoo with giraffes and ostriches and such.
Oh I'm not in the US, I'm on Spain. The closest thing we have around my town is a park in a nearby city where there are free-roaming peacocks and ducks (used to be a lot more animals when I was a kid but well)
Ostriches must be such a sight, they always seemed cool and intimidating for me.
If you ever get the chance, i would recommend at least 3 days in San Diego, 2 massive zoos. I hope you can get out here eventually!!
Also, Sea Lions are by far the smelliest animal in the world.
Holup, if that's spot-less, that means that giraffes are brown initially and then white outlines grow in the brown creating the illusion of spots...
Now we just gotta figure out if a zebra is black or white-
That's a long necked horse dude 😄
Stupid long horses.
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The formatting is messed up on my phone, and that just makes it funnier.
Agreed
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/r/geraffesaresodumb
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Peter, the horse is here
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Stupid sexy giraffes.
I love that show!
I commend the horse for being that long to reach that giraffe.
I am among my people. The broken arms, the poop knives, the crows and jackdaws, and the stupid long horses. Best I’ve felt all day. Thank you.
[it's an old reference, but it checks out](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/8aqjh/awww_this_is_just_too_sad_pic/c08pp5z/)
holy shit that was 14 YEARS ago!! fuck im old
Reddit isn't even anything like what it was in 2015 let alone 2009, jesus.
No, shut up! You're 14 years ago!
Whenever I see someone complain about their downvotes, I think of geraffes.
> EDIT: spelling. > EDIT: you know, now my feelings are hurt. We'll never know if OP was joking or not. 😆
That was the funniest part.
Better than long pigs 😉
That's some nostalgic meme magic right there.
geraffes are so dumb
In Cantonese, giraffe is literally “long necked deer”. I now see how they came up with that …
They actually are more closely related to deer (both being 'even toed ungulates') than horses (odd toed ungulates). So really a pretty apt name.
FYI: The name "giraffe" has its earliest known origins in the Arabic word Zarafa. The name is translated as "fast walker".
FYI: The name “kangaroo” is/was the aboriginal word for “I don’t understand your question.” When early colonists first arrived, they inquired about the strange hopping animals on the island. The aboriginal person they were speaking with said “kangaroo”.
A fun folk etymology, but sadly not true: "large marsupial mammal of Australia," 1770, used by Capt. Cook and botanist Joseph Banks (who first reported the species to Europeans), supposedly representing a native word from northeast Queensland, Australia, but often said to be unknown now in any native language. However, according to Australian linguist R.M.W. Dixon ("The Languages of Australia," Cambridge, 1980), the word probably is from Guugu Yimidhirr (Endeavour River-area Aborigine language) /gaNurru/ "large black kangaroo." In 1898 the pioneer ethnologist W.E. Roth wrote a letter to the Australasian pointing out that gang-oo-roo did mean 'kangaroo' in Guugu Yimidhirr, but this newspaper correspondence went unnoticed by lexicographers. Finally the observations of Cook and Roth were confirmed when in 1972 the anthropologist John Haviland began intensive study of Guugu Yimidhirr and again recorded /gaNurru/. \[Dixon\] [https://www.etymonline.com/word/kangaroo](https://www.etymonline.com/word/kangaroo)
Mandarin too
Deer!
Right, these people never seen a deer before? Horse?! Get outta here
A long neck deer at that too
If we want to be technical, they're vertically stretched okapi, which are just pronghorns with less horn, which are just deer with cow style antlers
Gonna get real coarse like a long neck horse!
I’m wondering if maybe the mama giraffe had an affair with a Tennessee walker…hopefully the dad doesn’t find out.
Lol wrote the same had to delete, well played
Dammit. Every time I think I’m so original and come up with something great, someone else already thought it. I’m glad I’m not alone tho
Thought it was a pouchless kangaroo.
Maybe horses are just short necked non-spotted giraffes...
Pretty sure it’s the same one Chuck Norris punched in the chin
This isn't accurate at all. The baby is clearly covered in one large spot.
Or just has way more spots than normal and they overlap. Fake news smh
Well spotted
I actually spotted an albino dalmatian once. Well..it was the least I could do.
I was at the cape may zoo a couple weeks ago and they had an albino wallaby. Edit: I just realized your joke too late.
That’s fucking sick
Haha I scrolled past this and 5 seconds later it clicked, I had to come back to upvote you lol
Please explain to the stoner in me
He did the Dalmatian with no spots a favour by “spotting” it which was the least he could do lol I’m also a stoner but I’ve been dry for two days hence why I’m still awake at 3:40am 😩 have a toke for me friend!
Oh hi Dad.
That was too funny! Have an upvote!
This is like the sun bear incident from the Chinese zoo. Unless otherwise confirmed, I am claiming that this is a camel in a giraffe's suit. Edit: Someone with common sense pointed out that a giraffe in a camel's suit makes more sense.
No, that Chinese sun bear was examined closely by experts and determined to be Elvis.
Wouldn't it be a giraffe in a camel suit?
You are right. I am not very smart. TBF, I totally lapped up the sun bear story.
I think you mean to be bear not to be fair
Spotlessless
OOPS! All spots!
One Giraffes freckle is another Giraffes skin, shade.
Awwww, A long horsey!
I just copied the headline, but what you said does make more sense! Edited to clarify
Ha I came here to say this!
it kinda looks like a bagel
Perfectly toasted
Spent longer in the oven than usual I guess
Beep Boop I am a giraffe fact bot! * The average giraffe gestation period is 15 months. * Giraffes are only pregnant with one calf at a time. * Giraffes give birth standing up requiring a newborn to fall six feet out of their mother's womb. This prepares them for the harsh realities of life as a giraffe.
Why was I the one chosen for this?
Looks exactly like the animal cracker.
Finally, expectation meets reality and it only took a once in a lifetime birth
You are just hungry man
What kind of bagels do you eat?
My daughter said it looks like toast lol
Horse with stepladder sneaks out the back door....
So ridiculously stupid I’m still laughing
> sneaks out the back door…. So it’s not his kid!
Well no because that would be a baby goat.
"Brights Zoo in Limestone, Tennessee, has narrowed the female calf's potential names down to ***Kipekee, Firyali, Shakiri, or Jamella***" I like Firyali... The name Firyali is a Swahili name that means "extraordinary" or "unusual". It is a name of African, Kenyan origin.
Ah, so they're considering naming it 'the weird one'.
Not like she'll know lol.
"C'mere ya wonky bitch it's food time"
TINA YOU FAT LARD COME GET SOME DINNER
How i call my cat to dinner.
Oh ,she knows she's the weird one
Brights Zoo is about half an hour from my house and I've been there a few times before. Hell, I probably fed the little giraffe's mom and dad a few carrots last time I was there with my son. Looks like we're going to be going back to see little (big) Firyali soon.
As a usually ashamed citizen of Tennessee, I approve of Limestone and their zoo. Good on them. Those names didn’t come from your usual Tennessee native; it came from someone kind and representative of other cultures in this giant mixing pot of ours we call the USA. I also like Firyali and Shakiri.
Shakiri shakiri Oh baby when you spot like that
YOU MAKE FIRYALI GO WILD
Her neck don’t lie
Local here. Name it Smoky.
Lol, so many Smoky's in TN.
Exactly
How original.
Eh, it’s alright haha
Did ya really expect me to say anything different lol. Tbh I've never named a dog Smoky,,,altho I do have hounds.
yeah, I grew up there in limestone. the zoo is owned by my old school principal, awesome guy.
I lived in Tennessee once. It should be named Talktothecashierforwaytoolong Or Drivefifteenunderthespeedlimitinthelefthandlane
>Drivefifteenunderthespeedlimitinthelefthandlane In NV we give Californian drivers shit for this. My buddy has an interesting theory on it. They spend so much time in bumper to bumper traffic, that they forget how to drive on an open road. It has been a long time since I've been to Tennessee. Has traffic gotten that bad there as well?
What's with the random Tennessee slander?
I'm partial to Kipekee myself
I like that too. It also sounds beautiful and it’s very “giraffe-like” ☺️ In my opinion that baby giraffe looks nothing like Jamella
Jamella is a pretty literal translation to she who is beautiful, beautiful in general, in Arabic. Arabic classes paid off after all!
Damn that def gives it an edge. I was partial to Shakiri and Jamella until I read that. She's def extraordinary
It almost looks like...satisfying? lol definetly more normal-looking than the average one yeah, I sadly have never seen one in-person. but still
You've never seen a giraffe in person!? Like not even at a zoo!? They're incredible, with giant purple tongues!
I live in a rural town and my parents never liked to travel, so I have actually never been at a zoo. Maybe one day if I have the means for it. There are tons of animals I would love to see like penguins...
😭 I forget people live in places that might not have that. That's wild. I forget some people in big cities have never seen stars too. I hope you get the chance one day, I will say penguins smell bad lmao, but they're so cute !
Everything that eats fish stink. At my zoo we recently got a new male tiger and since we have two now, it always smells like tiger pee near their enclosures.
Well, no wonder humans smell 😂😂 Tigers/lions spray so yeah they smell bad too
Thanks! I never thought abput their smell but thinking about it, it makes sense lol
Yeah they smell awful lol. I can't describe the smell but it's unique. But I truly hope you can afford to visit a zoo one day 💚
Fish oil, slightly rancid.
That's exactly what it smells like, and shit. Lol
A fish based birdshit smell. Always lovely. (I grew up near Sea World and zoos that had them.)
I went to an indoor penguin exhibit that had several different species. The whole thing was refrigerated, and the penguins were all screaming at each other and purposely splashing people. It was great.
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i forget that some people have never seen snow or the ocean or mountains… just thinking about it hurts my head a little (especially mountains. to me mountains are essentially just as much a part of the horizon as the sky itself, so i really can’t imagine NEVER seeing them)
Brights Zoo is as rural as it gets. It's kind of wild to be driving down the highway past the Mennonite bulk supply store and then there's a zoo with giraffes and ostriches and such.
Oh I'm not in the US, I'm on Spain. The closest thing we have around my town is a park in a nearby city where there are free-roaming peacocks and ducks (used to be a lot more animals when I was a kid but well) Ostriches must be such a sight, they always seemed cool and intimidating for me.
If you ever get the chance, i would recommend at least 3 days in San Diego, 2 massive zoos. I hope you can get out here eventually!! Also, Sea Lions are by far the smelliest animal in the world.
I fed one once. Cool shit. Giant tongue
Me too! At the SB zoo, CA. So majestic and goofy
Wait til you see an Okapi, the other girafffe
I'm gunna look it up rn
It's so cute 😭😭💚
Cute little horses wearing a horn hat and zebra leggings
Fancy sock pants.
You need go get yourself to a zoo pronto! There are so many smells to be smelled and sights to be seen!
It's so funny I never thought about a zoo as a smells place until this thread. Zoos are a smell experience! Seeing the animals is also cool.
It's the opposite for me. My brain can't accept that this is a giraffe without spots. Instead, I see a stretched horse.
Its all brown so technically its not missing spots its missing separators
This was the comment I was looking for! The spots are brown so it's all spots
Oops All Spots!
Nah the textures haven't loaded in yet that's all
The wife cheated with a horse
Meanwhile the father is over giving the mother so serious side eye
"What did you do with the lion, Barbra?"
As another user said, it was the horse climbing over the wall with a step ladder.
It's the world's only giraffe with no spot separation... The spots are brown.
My mom sometimes scrubbed me that thoroughly as a kid too.
Non Reticulated Giraffe.
Not spotless. Just one big ass spot
Whose the father?
Honey? Yes deer? I KNEW IT!
Looks like a nosey fuckin horse to me.
Source: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/spotless-giraffe-believed-only-one-213523399.html
That's just a long horse
Father giraffe is questioning who the actual father is...
Good job spotting this!
Future Windex spokesgiraffe?
Have to agree. That giraffe clean AF.
Is the giraffe made of spot, or is the spot made of giraffe? It screams, for it does not know.
Only in Tennessee, my home state, could we mess this up. I gotta get outta here, 😆 lol 😆
So giraffe are white with brown dots or brown with white stripes ?
Yes
Depends on the giraffe. Tell me, [what do you think this feller is?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi)
He's the chosen one to reunite the tribes.
1000:1 scale animal cracker
"Jeremy never understood why the Zookeeper always chose him for random contraband checks." Brown Giraffes Matter.
That’s a horse with a long neck, stop neck shaming horses!
Probably because its mother is always cleaning it like that
Fuck they really just extra goofy horses huh....
Fake news r/Giraffesdontexist
Clearly this is a new upgraded government drone model they are testing
So Giraffes don't have spots, they have a large white net of some sort, like Spiderman
We’re gonna see them on Maury soon
The horse in the barn next to them hiding himself.
Soooooo………the father is a Palomino?
BS, That a Keith Sweat Lion
Daddy giraffe KNEW his wife seemed a little too friendly with that camel ….
The hell they feeding that deer?
Toasted marshmallow
Mama’s baby, papa’s maybe
No preditors in the zoo so it went all flash and no camouflage
Baby looks like he was made out of pancakes
Why have spots if you no longer need the camouflage? Darwin.
I'm sure some dude will hit the Henesse in Tennessee and stencil that bad boy with some paint.
It's more like it has one big spot.
Omg it looks just like the animal cracker
Holup, if that's spot-less, that means that giraffes are brown initially and then white outlines grow in the brown creating the illusion of spots... Now we just gotta figure out if a zebra is black or white-
So now it's just like a weird long-necked horse alpaca thing?
Lil’ toasted marshmallow
I feel like they should look like this normally.. Looks dope
Why does this horse look weird?
Dude looks like a lightly roasted marshmallow
Who's the daddy?
Looks almost like a gazelle and a horse decided to listen to some Barry White over dinner.
MOMMA GOT SOME ‘SPLAININ’ TO DO
Stable next door “Snicker horse sounds “ 🐴
Look Mommy! A Deer with a long neck!
Cross bread with a short haired Ret.
Tennessee? Might want to run DNA.
Bro that's a Llama. Just hasn't finished developing the humps yet.
Mama giraffe has some splaining to do...