Other large herbivores, especially giraffes, will eat the plants, probably because they are not as bothered by the ants. Nigel Raine, another ecologist from Royal Holloway, University of London, also studies these ant plants, and says that giraffes will go ahead and eat the leaves of the plants, although ants will then swarm onto their face and mouth and try to bite them.
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