Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Necking Behavior in males Giraffes

Two male giraffes are necking in San Francisco Zoo.jpg

Original - Males Giraffe are often engage in necking.Necking has been seen in both combat and sexual situations. Battles can be fatal, but are more often less severe. Another function of necking is sexual, in which two males caress and court each other, leading up to mounting and climax.Necking could last from few minutes to more then an hour. In this particular episode of necking the first image was taken at 11:11 a.m., the last at 11:39 a.m. During this time giraffes moved to absolutely different location and continued necking there.Here are few more positions:

Reason

High quality, high resolution, EV

Articles this image appears in

Giraffe, San Francisco Zoo

Creator

mbz1

• Support as nominator --Mbz1 (talk) 03:51, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

• Comment May I please ask you to take a look at this nomination. I, myself strongly supported the image because I did not know what necking is about. Now I do after watching this behavior for almost half an hour. At first I thought it was a courtship dance( it really looked as a dance ) between a male and female. So I asked a zookeeper and he kindly explained to me what I was looking at. I still like the image File:Giraffe Ithala KZN South Africa Luca Galuzzi 2004.JPG very much. It is high quality, high resolution image and most important it was taken in the wild! There's only one problem with the image. It does not show necking.here is drawing of few positions during necking. On April 12 I replaced File:Giraffe Ithala KZN South Africa Luca Galuzzi 2004.JPG with my image in the section necking of Giraffe article. User Mgiganteus1 and user Secret Squïrrel are keeping removing it because they like the other one better. I do too. It is much better, but it just does not show what necking is about while my image does, so please do not be surprised, if you do not see the nominated image in giraffe article. Thank you.

No quorum => Not promoted ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 03:37, 2 May 2009 (UTC)