Daily Photo – One more Giraffe

Daily Photo – One more Giraffe

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Thought I'd post one more (happier) picture of a before moving on to another country and another series.

I took this photo as we were headed out of Chobe National in to catch a flight to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe.

He was just standing there as we drove on by, no doubt wondering what the hell we were all looking at.

The ancient Greeks and Romans knew of and according to rumors on the internet, thought that they were a cross between a camel and a leopard, hence the scientific genus name of ‘camelopardalis'. Not sure how they envisioned a camel and a leopard mating, though – probably after copious quantities of wine!

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