They both nominally have 5 7, but I’m guessing there’s at least one person choking on a fish or chicken bone at any given time to slightly skew the average.

Edit: corrected to 7

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    Giraffe’s have more risk of additional bones based on your assertion because they tend to, like all grazing herbivores, eat whatever happens to be in front of their faces. Including small animals.

    My money is on the Giraffe having the most bones based on that. haha

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      in front of their faces.

      At 15’ in the air, there aren’t many small animals in front of their faces.

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        At 15’ in the air, there aren’t many small animals in front of their faces.

        Are you unaware that small animals inhabit the trees where Giraffes feed?

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      Ooh good point. Though there’s only around 120,000 giraffes in the world, not sure what the probabilities are that any are trying to swallow a gerbil at any given time (and probably a more localized time window, given they’re less spread out).

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        That is a very good point and I forgot to consider that the population would heavily skew the average in the humans favour.