Beth Shapiro

I've been told that a giraffe is the dumbest animal.

Yeah.

I didn't know this and I wouldn't have suspected it because they're so gorgeous.

And you wouldn't think that something that gorgeous would be so dumb.

But I have friends who are Matt James, who's the chief animal officer at Colossal.

He's worked with at lots of different zoos throughout his career.

And he's told me that there are multiple occasions where he has had to save a giraffe from accidentally killing itself because it's so dumb.

There's nothing going on in there.

Sounds a little dangerous to me, though.

If they are genuinely stupid, will they accidentally at some point take that baby's hand?

And then they have huge, strong necks.

But this is, I don't know.

Huh.

I mean, cool.

But I also trust a person who has tried to keep giraffes from killing themselves by doing dumb things to tell me that a giraffe isn't always making the best decisions.

I'm sure that's true.

I mean, otherwise, that's how evolution works.

There's a wire I can get my neck stuck in.

Probably.

Yeah.