By Ross Pomeroy, RealClearScience | June 25, 2017 09:24am ET
Two months ago, Reddit user
infernograve woke from a vivid dream. As wakefulness crept back, the dream did
not recede, rather, it stuck in his mind, piquing his curiosity and prompting a
burning question. He subsequently logged into Reddit's popular AskScience subreddit to
share it:
The question is now the most
popular ever asked on the forum.
So do giraffes get struck by
lightning at higher rates? Intuitively, the obvious answer is "yes."
Standing between fourteen and nineteen feet tall when fully grown, giraffes
tower above the savannah and open woodland landscapes where they dwell. Of course, lightning
doesn't always strike the tallest object in an area, but taller objects are
more susceptible due to the shorter gap between the object and the lightning's
point of origin.
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