Are giraffes really the animals hit by lightning the most?

Although we now know that giraffes are easy to be victims of lightning, without data support, no one can tell whether giraffes are the most easily chopped animals in the world. They may indeed attract more lightning, but this does not mean that giraffes die in large numbers under the hammer of Thor and live in fear of being dominated by lightning.

Darren Nash, a zoologist, said that between 1996 and 1999, two giraffes in a rhinoceros and lion reserve in South Africa were killed by lightning. The third head is a child. Chopped, too, but survived

In 2003, Betsy the giraffe was killed by lightning at Disneyland in Florida. 20 10 south African TV star hamray was also hacked to death.

However, no one has really studied this topic, and we don't have exact statistics.

However, there is a paper related to this issue: in 20 12, an electronic engineer named Chandima Gomez published a paper entitled Lightning Safety of Animals.

He pointed out that animals with a long distance between their forelegs and hind legs are more vulnerable to lightning strikes, because a dangerous potential difference may be formed between their forelegs and hind legs, causing current to penetrate important organs in their stomachs. He also pointed out that when lightning strikes a tree and hits the heads of nearby tall animals (such as elephants and giraffes), animals may bounce off.