Giraffes often live separately by gender, and ‘cuddly’ behavior by antiquity often occurs in stags. In one report, researchers spent 3,200 hours over three years observing herds of giraffes in Tanzania’s national park, which they found surprising. The researchers observed a total of 16 cases of two males having sex with each other. They argue that this is an act of showing status in giraffes, but there is no evidence to support this idea. During that same period, they only saw a pair of male and female giraffes having sex with each other. The report shows that 94% of the giraffes’ behavior they observed was homosexual.