Just as we were about to leave the game park, we encountered three giraffes - right in the middle of the road!One was very old. The youngest is pictured here. The elder was completely unafraid of us. He was literally within touching distance.
What makes the game park experience different than visiting a zoo in North America or Europe is the scale of the habitat* and the unfenced experience. It's kind of like visiting a friend's home. That's a lot different than visiting them in prison. (I'm not saying zoos are bad - they certainly provide an opportunity to see animals in real life that would not otherwise be possible for most people.)
*One of Kenya's game parks is the size of Connecticut.
5 comments:
Thanks for the great picture and the understated insight. I am so impressed with Giraffes when I encounter them in zoos. Here in Stuttgart they actually bend over quite far over the fence so that you can almost touch them.
dude, i'm so freakin jealous!!! I absolutely love animals.. and giraffes! ... holy cow.
you'll have to give us the low down on where to go when we bring Brooklyn and Sam to Kenya.
courtney
ps-- our friends the Puringtons just got back to Nairobi!
how did you get up so high? ..aw..feel like touching it :)
Great capture !
Oh wow, that's an amazing picture!
Where's the rest of the giraffe? =)
I shot it from our car. That giraffe was just a little guy.
The rest of him is hidden behind the undergrowth.
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