> "The most surprising thing for me is that it has taken until 2021 to recognize that giraffes have a complex social system. We have known for decades about oth

> "The most surprising thing for me is that it has taken until 2021 to recognize that giraffes have a complex social system. We have known for decades about other species of socially complex mammal, such as elephants, primates and cetaceans, but it is baffling to me how such a charismatic and well-known species as the giraffe could have been so understudied until recently," If giraffes have been understudied until recently, this casts discredit on what has been the prevailing "wisdom": > Once perceived as humble creatures that focused solely on feeding their majestic bodies, one book from 1991 described the giraffe as "socially aloof, forming no lasting bonds with its fellows and associating in the most casual way." i.e. the old "wisdom" wasn't wisdom at all because it wasn't derived from data. It was a cognitive default bias of the human species. “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.” ― Anaïs Nin