Masculinity And Its Effect On Male Giraffes

An okapi (Okapia johnstoni) is an uncommon timberland giraffe discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo's National Park of Virunga, regardless of more than 10 years of common war and expanded poaching. From the mid-1900s, the okapi stayed unseen in the reserve for more than five decade. Two years prior findings this

Giraffes are large animals who have a striking appearance. The can be easily identified by their long necks, long legs, and spotted pattern. Every giraffe is unique; each one has it’s own, distinctive pattern. A giraffe’s pattern gets darker as it ages, this allows us to get a better idea of their age. In the wild, a giraffe lives about 20-25 years, but if captive, they usually live an extra 3 years. This expands their lifespan to 28 years maximum. Have you ever noticed how large a giraffe’s nose is? Well, a large animal requires a large nose, but one of the reasons that the giraffe’s nose is more notable than others is because they can open and close their nostrils. Since they have complete control of their noses, they can prevent bugs, sand, or other pesky things from getting into their airways. If you look a little lower than the nose, you might find the giraffe sticking it’s long blue tongue out at you. How rude! Or, is it just asking for food? A giraffe’s tongue is about 18” long.

In today’s society, masculinity has changed throughout time. Fast forward one hundred years ago, masculinity is defined as being strong and having a good paying job. But as the world is changing so is the representation of manliness. You don’t have to show your dominance over men or women today, but you should support your family nowadays and we have all been brainwashed by the thought of masculinity from our ancestors. As men our reputation is always being valued but now it isn’t so much about our reputation but about caring for one another and especially for our families. Perspective of manhood is also a significant factor in portraying what masculinity is in the eyes of other people. Masculinity has been shown through money, appearance, and providing protection for your family members but as we shift into the modern world, masculinity is not seen as displaying the most discipline but caring for one another by taking out some of your time to help one another. Throughout the paper, I will be writing about my interviews from a broad spectrum of ages from one of my younger sisters to my dad with not friends not at Seb’s in between so I can get what it really means to be a man from all ages.

The giraffe eventually evolved into the shape we know today. Their height gives them many advantages in the wild. One of the advantages is the ability to see great distances and have a high vantage point of view. This allows for the giraffe to be vigilant and keep a watchful eye out for predators(Skinner 2010). Its increased hight also allows for greater sexual dominance. The male giraffes fight each other by swinging their heads around and hitting each other with their heads. An increased neck length aids in this battle.(Simmons 2010) Last the neck allows for greater access to food and nutrients(Skinner 2010). With their necks being so long, they are able to reach very high trees and eat with ease. This would allow the giraffes with tall necks a greater chance for survival and passing on their

What makes a man, a “man”? Is it how much money he makes? The car he drives? The life he lives? Or, the amount of “Masculinity” that he shows? These are some of the stereotypical question that becomes the ideas of what men should have or strive to achieve. In Post-Princess Models of Gender: The New Man in Disney/Pixar by Ken Gillam and Shannon R. Wooden, they bring forth the ideas/thought of what the characteristic of men should be, by the overly influential control Disney and Pixar have on us and our future generation. Similar to what Matthew Immergut, in his article Manscaping: The Tangle of Nature, Culture and the Male Body, they both share ideas on the thought of man. The argument addressed in the question is either the way we view masculinity should be changed or not to determine us as men. In which the answer is, yes it should. Male or man, is a gender identity which show/ categorize, us separate from our female counterpart, Female or woman. But then are criticized on their place a “males” by getting in situation the emasculate them. Just because men independent or allowing for help, either overly sensitive or possess a lack of emotion, or whether or not “he” shaves his body or not should deter what the worlds thought on his masculinity

In Germinal, from the depiction of Bonnemort to the only survivor of mine incident Lantier, Émile Zola depicts mostly depressing feelings revealing the hard lives of mid-nineteenth-century French miners. Germinal is a novel full of abusive relationships between parent and child, man and woman, and the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Gender and class relation intertwine with each other, both powerfully exert substantial influence in shaping mid-nineteenth century of French life. The male dominance over female differentiates roles of men and women, and sets the basic structure of a patriarchal family.

The Cornwall of Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs is a realm of curdled, steroidal masculinity. The men of this remote southwest portion of the U.K. appear to come in three flavors: under-employed, consistently drunk ruffians, who’re all cock and rage; intellectuals, who’re as resentful as the ruffians beneath their white-collar gentility; and the feebly emasculated, as embodied by the village idiot, Henry (David Warner), who has a history of molesting children and who’s treated by the local girls as a pet. Henry embodies the extremity of desire that’s crippling the men of Cornwall, as he can’t have what he badly wants, and this stifling of urges symbolically castrates him until he explodes in a torrent of confusion, setting off the film’s primary conflict. The women, of which there are three in the entire film, embody two types: the frustrated housewife and the “tart,” which overlap at least once.

Once upon a time in the dappled red, sunny safari of Cameroon, there lived a young giraffe named Gilbert. He was the son of Gus and Gina, who were the giraffes in charge of keeping the peace. He had an older brother, Grant, who was the fastest giraffe, and a younger sister, Giselle, who had the most beautiful caramel spots on her body. They were the perfect giraffes, but Gilbert felt like he was the awkward middle child. Gilbert was born with a shorter neck than the majority of the giraffes in the kingdom, which made him feel like he didn’t fit in with anyone.

Since the day you’re born, society has told you what you can and cannot play with, wear, and even say.The United States has designed an unrealistic definition of American masculinity. For men, society has told them how they are to fit into society’s mold of masculinity. They are bombarded with rules and restrictions, and are told that if they do not conform to fit the picture of the ideal man, they are deemed “different”, a misfit. Being a “real” man has never been harder, and many people and companies are starting to see that. In recent news, Mattel, the worldwide company that is behind the Barbie doll, is a symbol for young girls and feminism. Recently, the Barbie company has embraced that not only young girls like to play with their dolls but also boys can enjoy them without feeling like their masculinity is being challenged. They released their first commercial that features a boy playing with their newest barbie, “Moschino Barbie.” Their ad allows men of all ages to change the way society defines their masculinity through changing the way “female” activities are viewed. Boys are born loving creatures, but at a very young age they are taught the traits, diminutive language, and mindset that aligns them with society’s concept of what it means to be a man.

Giraffe Herds consist of between 10 to 15 individual females, Herds of over 100 Giraffes have been documented in the wild; However in these instances that assumption is incorrect. Many herds of giraffes often live in close proximity to one another during the wet season due to the large abundance of lush vegetation in the area. Even when the giraffe herds are widely scattered, it may seem that they do not keep in contact with each other; however that is not the truth. Giraffe’s have incredible long distance eyesight which means they can keep an eye on their neighbouring herds and an eye out for lurking predators even at great distances. During the wet season after the calves have been born small nursery groups form, in which female giraffes take turns in watching over each other’s calves and allowing the other females to sleep and eat. These nursery groups insure that no young giraffes are ever left alone and vulnerable to attack from a predator. Giraffe herds are very unique as they do not have a distinctive individual leading the herd; many ethnologists believe giraffes to be the least socially structured species of mammal.

A lek is an aggregation of males that gather to engage in competitive displays that may entice visiting females who are surveying prospective partners for copulation. A lekking species is defined by the following characteristics: male displays, strong female mate choice, and the conferring of male indirect benefits. In David Mcdonald’s article, “Cooperative Display and Relatedness Among Males in a Lek-Mating Bird” discusses about long-tailed manakins who mate in leks and cooperate in multiyear male-male partnerships. An alpha male is responsible for virtually all mating, whereas a beta male assists in the courtship displays. Such altruism by the beta male poses a problem for evolutionary theory because most theoretical treatments and empirical

In the Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda, data was collected by the Karisoke Research Center, in which both male and female gorillas (each from single male and multi-male groups) were observed for their ‘friendship’ interactions such as grooming and distance to each other: silverbacks were determined by their dominance rank and how aggressive they were towards others, and then were numbered in relation to how much time the female spent with them. Then, fecal samples of all the gorillas were collected and analyzed using the program CERVUS to determine paternity of the infants.

Giraffes’ are unique, because they eat different, and have longer body parts to reach things. No animal communicates the same, Giraffe’s communicates in their own way. They have their own environment that they share with others that need the same environment as them. They only have relative thats been found there might be others. It is proven that the have one relative at this point as of 2017.

Since the time of Florence Nightingale nursing has been popularly understood to be a highly gendered profession based on abilities of caring, helping, and nurturing – which are characteristics stereotypically identified with women and not men in the Western world (Cottingham, 2014; Rajacich, Kane, Williston, & Cameron, 2013; Stanley, 2012). Nightingale’s profound influence on nursing was filtered through the rigid Victorian cultural concepts of her time that viewed women as carers and helpers and men as active doers and experts, with white women of the middle class being the ideal helpers for knowledgeable and powerful male doctors whose primary function was scientific excellence and technical mastery and not the human dimension of caring, showing empathy, or serving others (Andrews, Stewart, Morgan, & D’Arcy, 2012; Cottingham, 2014). After Nightingale, the identification of femininity with nursing continued as the essentialist notion that women are carers and men are doers went essentially unchallenged (McMurry, 2011; Rajacich et al., 2013). This construction was based upon gendered notions of the characteristics of masculinity – defined as “hyper-heterosexuality, control, technical/physical competence, autonomy, and rationality” that are constructed as superior to “feminine” characteristics and deserve more respect, celebration, and recognition by society (Cottingham, 2014). In essence, to be a male and a nurse was therefore to be

When a new male becomes part of the pride it is not unusual for him to kill all the cubs, ensuring that all future cubs will have his genes. The main job of males in the pride is defending the pride's territory. A male's loud roar, usually heard after sunset, can carry for as far as five miles (eight kilometers). The roar warns off intruders and helps round up stray members of the