2006-08-27 06:17:18 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
The horns do look a little like rabbit-ear antennas but their purpose is obscure. The females don’t use their lighter ones at all. The males use theirs incidentally in a fight. The scarred and battered big horns on a male (called ossicones, meaning "hair-covered horns") receive and occasionally deliver blows. A bull’s primary weapons, however, are two smaller horns in back of and below the big horns. Using these and his entire massive head, he clubs the other guy into submission to win reproductive rights.
2006-08-27 06:22:43 · answer #1 · answered by ted_armentrout 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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Are the knobs (ossicones) on giraffe heads used for anything besides head butting protection?
2015-08-18 09:48:16 · answer #2 · answered by Keary 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-07 08:23:54 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Yeah and once the birds falls to the ground they step on it till its a bloody pulp of nothing.
2016-04-01 23:36:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they hold there head just right they can pick up the Howard Stern show. Well thats what I heard.
2006-08-27 06:20:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they use them for opening beer bottles.
2006-08-27 06:48:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
male giraffes use them to fight other males during rutting(breeding)season.
2006-08-27 06:22:43 · answer #7 · answered by That one guy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋