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A nerve running from a giraffe's brain to its voice box goes down the neck, loops under an artery near the heart, and climbs all the way back up — a detour of about four and a half metres.
A nerve running from a giraffe's brain to its voice box goes down the neck, loops under an artery near the heart, and climbs all the way back up — a detour of about four and a half metres.
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