80 foot tall?
Beautiful Shot of Giraffe Looming in Mist as Leopard Approaches (Photo: Dylan Royal)pic.twitter.com/K49uf38TiO
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What did you search for this gif
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Loch ness monster
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why does the giraffe look gigantic
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Giraffes are more or less that tall I guess. A fully grown one surely is.
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Google says 20 ft. Guess the giraffe was relatively close to the jaguar and the shot was taken low to the ground. Still looks like a prehistoric creature, must just be optical illusion.
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If the photo was taken so low, wouldn't the leopard have looked slightly bigger as well?
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It's probably taken with a telephoto lens from very far away; in non-telephoto pictures, more-distant objects look a lot smaller, but not so with telephoto. Giraffes are about 7x taller than leopards, so relative to each other, each animal is "actual" size in the photo.
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Our minds, thinking that more distant objects need to be "smaller" in the image, perceives the giraffe to be gigantic, when really it's just a regular sized giraffe. Which are still friggin' huge.
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Thank you for this insight!
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