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by lukas099 1154 days ago
Your comment reminded me of something. I forgot the underlying reason, but in anatomy we learned that for mammals it's evolutionarily 'hard' to change numbers of vertebrae, which is why the giraffe has the same as its siblings and they are just obscenely long. On the other hand, birds with longer necks tend to have more vertebrae.