Courtship. Solitary male checks females in a herd by testing odor of hind parts or urine ("Flehmen" response). Includes lip curl, which helps to bring odor to vomeronasal organ.
Male giraffes will explore a female's rump and genital area, and if she likes him (wink!) she'll voluntarily produce urine which he'll sniff and taste, to see if she's in estrus.
To find which of them are willing to mate, the males smell their urine. If things look promising, male follows the female around until she stands still, indicating that the time is right. Finally, the male mounts the female from the rear and copulates with her.
But these megaherbivores can also be quite brutal. In intense bouts, male giraffes compete for dominance by steadying their legs and swinging their necks to deliver sledgehammer blows to each other with the stout ossicones atop their heads.
Male giraffes will headbutt females in the bladder until they pee. They then drink the urine, tasting it to determine whether the female is ovulating.
After aggressive "necking", it is common for two male giraffes to caress and court each other, leading up to mounting and climax. Such interactions between males have been found to be more frequent than heterosexual coupling. In one study, up to 94% of observed mounting incidents took place between two males.
To know when to mate, a male giraffe will continuously headbutt the female in the bladder until she urinates. The male then tastes the pee and that helps it determine whether the female is ovulating.
Do giraffes mate for life? No, males and females usually associate with each other in loose social groups. When she is receptive, the female will allow a particular male to mate with her. She does not necessarily always choose the same one.
Giraffes are the world's tallest land animal. Our tallest giraffe stands 17 feet tall! They may be incredibly tall and majestic creatures, but their mating ritual is downright weird. In order to determine if a female giraffe is fertile, the male will taste her urine.
If he tastes hormones that indicate she's in heat, the beautiful mating ritual begins. Once the male knows he has a fertile female in front of him, he sort of follows her around trying to mount her for a couple of days, often while sporting a frankly alarming erection, and sometimes licking her hind legs.
Sex is conducted at a precarious height above the ground and lasts only a few seconds. If she gets pregnant, the female giraffe will gestate for a whopping 400 days before she gives birth standing up, so that her baby giraffe is well developed enough to stand and walk when it's born.
The animal that has the most pleasure during mating or sexual intercourse is the Bonobo. It would be safe to say that Bonobos are the most sex-crazed animals that enjoy having sex to their fullest. Also, their sexual behavior and activities are insanely identical to humans.
1. Brown antechinus. For two weeks every mating season, a male will mate as much as physically possible, sometimes having sex for up to 14 hours at a time, flitting from one female to the next.
Luring with Smells. Many male and female animals produce smelly chemicals called pheromones. The smells are meant to tell partners about their health, where they are located, and that they are ready to mate. Insects use pheromones a lot, and they can sense the chemicals with their antennae.
Male giraffes stick their tongues in a female's urine stream to check for pheromones. A male giraffe curls his lips as part of a “flehmen response” that helps him detect pheromones in a female's urine. The pheromones signal whether the female is ready to mate or not.
The sooner the baby learns to stand and run, the safer it is from this lurking danger. Hence, the mother kicks her baby so that it can save her.
“Fighting is extremely rare because it's extremely violent,” Ms. Granweiler said. When older adult males joust for territory or mating rights, their hornlike pairs of ossicones thrust with the force of their long necks and can cut into their opponents' flesh, wounding and sometimes even killing a combatant.
The three brains of the adult male giraffes weighted respectively 722.7, 766.1 and 770.4 g, with a mean of 753.1 ± 15.23 g (Table 1).
Giraffes are friendly animals by nature. Wild giraffes live in herds and spend their time traveling, eating, and resting together. Ironically, a group of giraffes is called a tower! Not only do they enjoy being surrounded by other giraffes, they often enjoy the humans as well.
Male giraffes drink and savour female giraffe urine to see if she's ready to mate. Female giraffes don't have obvious visual signals of when they're ready to mate. Biologists working in Namibia have been able to observe how they will, upon prodding by males, provide a stream of urine which the male samples.
A healthy giraffe gestation can last from 14 to 16 months. Bailey's last pregnancy was one day shy of 15 months (457 days) long.
In trees representing accepted notions of evolutionary descent, giraffes and zebras are placed on widely separate branches, so it is generally believed that the two are simply too far apart to produce hybrids. Thus, it is not surprising that there are no reports from researchers who tried to create such hybrids.