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As females have also a long neck, and suffer a lot of physiological troubles for it, most probably not. Or at least not only for that. There must be other reas
by pvaldes 4y ago
As females have also a long neck, and suffer a lot of physiological troubles for it, most probably not.
Or at least not only for that. There must be other reasons playing a role here. Finding that a long neck is an advantage in sexual combat can be just a bonus of having developed it first for other purposes.
- ramblerman 4y agoIs there a limit to how much male and females can practically diverge in mammals? I'm not at all schooled in genetics, so genuinely curious. But I could imagine that you can't have 2 genders of the same species that are completely different. Perhaps the neck length is such an attribute?
- pvaldes 4y ago> I could imagine that you can't have 2 genders of the same species that are completely different. This is called sexual dimorfism and is not a rare event. Really extreme examples appear in some deep sea fishes in the order Lophiiformes I mammals is not so extreme, but it occurs also. Both genders having a different size is common and is what we would find in giraffes if the neck were developped just for fighting.
- redbread 4y agoIn some of those fishes the dimorphism is so extreme that the male is basically parasitic to the female. E.g. Ceratiidae