There are a ton of animal combat videos on the Internet. Predators or reptiles are frequently the main characters of the show. But how often have you watched a video of giraffes battling one another? It’s possible that this video of the two gentle giants ғɪɢʜᴛing may leave you in ᴀᴡᴇ because the possibility of encountering a ғɪɢʜᴛ like that is extremely low.

Generally speaking, giraffes are gentle giants. But even giraffes have bad days sometimes. When competing males in a herd are ғɪɢʜᴛing for supremacy, giraffes have been seen to engage in this vicious sparring. The larger bull males will beat each other’s necks during ᴍᴀᴛɪɴɢ season in an effort to control the other.

In their world, necking is the most violent and ᴛᴇʀʀɪʙʟᴇ activity they’re likely to ever take part in. When conflicts start, the swings are so violent that giraffes frequently get knocked out and occasionally even break their necks.

A herd’s most dominant male can be identified by the height at which his head is held. Males who are submissive will hang their heads low, whereas the dominating alpha bull will hold his head higher than the other bulls in the herd.

Let’s watch this extremely rare moment of two giraffes ғɪɢʜᴛing in the video below: