Show us your Giraffe Photos

[Peter Connan]

Beautiful S @pomkiwi

[africaaddict]

Martha......hold still!!
It was the breeding season after all.

On this morning and all in close proximity, I counted a tower of 72 Giraffe with the males all having but one thing on their mind.

Loisaba- Northern Kenya

 

Camera  NIKON D5

Lens  AF-S Nikkor 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR

ISO 250

Focal Length  400.0 mm (400.0 mm in 35mm)

Aperture  f/6.3

Exposure Time  0.001s (1/1000)

 

 

 

 

Mum & newborn symmetry

At beautiful first light a mother carefully surveys her surroundings mimicked by her newborn one day old calf.
Loisaba- Nth Kenya

 

Camera  Nikon D5

Lens  AF-S Nikkor 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR

ISO160

Focal Length  400.0 mm (400.0 mm in 35mm)

Aperture  f/5.6

Exposure Time  0.002s (1/500)

 

 

 

A tower of strength

Crouching low to the ground, I counted over 72 Giraffe in the vicinity of this image, of which just a few are shown here, it was mating season and all the males and females had come together to select their partners.

What a morning to winess this beautiful spectacle.

Loisaba- Northern Kenya

 

Camera NIKON D810

Lens  AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

ISO200

Focal Length  28.0 mm (28.0 mm in 35mm)

Aperture  f/16

Exposure Time  0.01s (1/100)

 

 

 

 

The tower of love!

Check out the size difference!! That's a lotta weight this young female has to support.
Loisaba district- Northern Kenya

 

Camera NIKON D5

Lens  AF-S Nikkor 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR

ISO160

Focal Length  400.0 mm (400.0 mm in 35mm)

Aperture  f/6.3

Exposure Time  0.001s (1/1000)

 

 

 

 

One day old.

I love the confident look this 1 day old baby giraffe is giving me, legs splayed and a nice tail swoosh!
Laikipia region- Northern Kenya

 

Camera NIKON D5

Lens  AF-S Nikkor 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR

ISO220

Focal Length  400.0 mm (400.0 mm in 35mm)

Aperture  f/5.6

Exposure Time  0.002s (1/500)

 

 

 

Giraffe dawn.

Kusini plains/Serengeti-  TZ

 

Camera NIKON D4

Lens  80.0-400.0 mm f/4.5-5.6

ISO6400

Focal Length  320.0 mm (320.0 mm in 35mm)

Aperture  f/5.6

Exposure Time  0.1s (1/10)

 

 

 

 

Standing vigilant before a lion pride that had just gorged themselves over a buffalo kill.

Hwange NP- ZIM

 

Camera NIKON D5

Lens  AF-S Nikkor 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR

ISO800

Focal Length  320.0 mm (320.0 mm in 35mm)

Aperture  f/10

Exposure Time  0.00063s (1/1600)

 

 

Cheers

Marc

 

 

Edited August 23, 2017 by africaaddict

[The_Norwegian]

Etosha-giraffe. 42 days until i leave for the next adventure! My oh my :-D 

Edited October 5, 2017 by The_Norwegian

[Soukous]

 

 

 

Giraffes in front of the Swartberg mountains, Klein KAroo, South Africa.

[Peter Connan]

Beautiful @Soukous!

[pomkiwi]

Layers

 

 

At Sunset Dam, Kruger National Park. Nikon D500, 80-400mm @320mm, f/10, 1/400sec, ISO 200

[Tom Kellie]

On 1/11/2019 at 4:30 AM, pomkiwi said:

Layers

At Sunset Dam, Kruger National Park. Nikon D500, 80-400mm @320mm, f/10, 1/400sec, ISO 200

 

~ @pomkiwi

 

Thank you for providing the camera settings for the giraffe image above.

 

The smaller giraffe on the right has reduced its overall profile more than any giraffe I've ever seen.

 

I like images like yours, which show less commonly observed behavior.

 

Very nice.

 

Tom K.

 

[Tom Kellie]

 

Reticulated Giraffe on the Samburu Side of the Ewaso Nyiro River

 

 

 

~ Photographed with a Canon EOS 1D X camera mounted with an EF 400mm f/2.8L IS II super-telephoto lens, hand-held, Shutter Priority shooting mode.

 

Samburu National Reserve, Kenya on 3 October, 2014 at 10:57 am, ISO 250, f/2.8, 1/2000 sec.

 

 

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Several Reticulated Giraffe arrived near the Ewaso Nyiro River together. They looked toward the water, but seemed to hesitate.

 

As we observed them, behind us a large group of Helogale parvulu were running about.

 

 

[Tom Kellie]

 

 

Brace Yourself

 

 

~ Photographed with a Canon EOS 1D X camera mounted with an EF 400mm f/2.8L IS II super-telephoto lens, hand-held, Shutter Priority shooting mode.

 

Samburu National Reserve, Kenya on 3 October, 2014 at 10:59 am, ISO 100, f/3.2, 1/2000 sec.

 

 

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For a long, cool drink of water, careful preparation, ample caution, and solid bracing on the wet mud.

 

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Different Perspective

[pomkiwi]

A pair of males battle it out in the Timbavati, South Africa

 

 

 

[melproffit]

Botswana 2006

[Soukous]

Klein Karoo, South Africa

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Soukous]

Ndutu, Tanzania

 

 

[Tom Kellie]

 

Reticulated Giraffe Neck

 

 

 

~ Photographed with a Canon EOS 1D X camera mounted with an EF 400mm f/2.8L IS II super-telephoto lens, hand-held, Manual shooting mode.

 

Samburu National Reserve, Kenya on 28 April, 2014 at 3:29 pm, ISO 200, f/4, 1/800 sec.

 

 

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I'd never seen a Reticulated Giraffe before. It impressed me then as much as it does now.

[ShirleyD]

 

Rothchild Giraffe - Lake Mburo National Park Uganda 

September 2022 

 

 

 

Canon 7D mark ii and canon EF-S 55-250 mm lens

F 5.6  187mm 1/160 sec ISO 500

Edited October 8, 2022 by ShirleyD

[inyathi]

I discovered earlier that it is World Giraffe Day today, so I thought I would post some more shots here, before the day is over that from what I can see I've not posted in this topic before, but may have posted elsewhere.

 

Kordofan Giraffes and Spur-winged Geese at Machtour in Zakouma National Park in Chad

 

Kordofan Giraffe and Spur-winged Geese at Machtour Zakouma NP Chad

 

Kordofan Giraffe and Spur-winged Geese at Machtour Zakouma NP Chad

 

Kordofan Giraffes at Rigueik Zakouma NP in Chad

[inyathi]

 

Nubian giraffes, Narus Valley, Kidepo National Park, Uganda

 

 

 

Nubian giraffe, Narus Valley, Kidepo National Park, Uganda

 

Having almost become extinct after the population in Kidepo was reduced to only 3 animals in the 1990s, 3 giraffes were brought in from Nakuru NP in Kenya, they had intended to bring 5, but KWS only managed to capture 3, tragically soon after release, one of them a young male was killed by a lion, but the other 2 females survived and remarkably one of them known as Maggie is still alive, at least she was when GCF surveyed the Kidepo population last year. Further reintroductions from Murchison Falls NP provided a significant boost to numbers, I don't know what the current figure is, the most recent figure I've seen is from 2021 and that puts the population at 80, apparently quite a few calves have been seen recently, so there are certainly more than 80, it shouldn't take too long to get up to 100 and over, that is great news.

 

Nubian giraffe, Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda

[inyathi]

Whilst I've posted my Zakouma and Kidepo photos before in trip reports, I don't believe I've posted any of these photos from Namibia on ST before.

 

 

Angolan giraffe in Daan Viljoen Game Reserve in Namibia

 

 

 

Angolan giraffes in Damaraland 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Angolan Giraffe Giraffa giraffa angolensis a subspecies of the Southern Giraffe should obviously occur in Angola, but as far as I know it may have become extinct there, I am not sure how many if any remain in its former stronghold in Mupa NP that was established to protect them, some information from the IUCN Red List I don't when from, just suggests that is possible that some might still occur there, but it seems a bit doubtful, so it is likely that they had become extinct in the country. However, a few years ago African Parks took on the management of Iona National Park on the north bank of the Kunene River, at the northern end of the Namib Desert, where it extends up in to the southeast corner of Angola, just recently a researcher from Namibia Jackson Hamutenya conducted a feasibility study on the reintroduction of giraffes to Iona, comparing the habitat there, to the habitat on the south bank of the Kunene in the Kaokoveld where there are some 500 of these giraffes, the results indicated that the habitat is absolutely perfect, that the park could potentially support a higher density than the Kaokoveld and crucially the local people would be happy to see giraffes brought back. The plan seems to be for the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, who have their HQ in Windhoek, and AP to capture 10 giraffes and move them to Iona NP, exactly when I am not certain, but the GCF's website would seem to suggest that it will happen this year, if I hear that it has happened, I will post the news, unless someone beats me too it.

 

Bringing Angolan giraffe back to Angola – is it feasible in Iona National Park Angola?

 

 

 

 

It is extraordinary how these giraffes are able to survive in a landscape that in places seems to be almost devoid of trees.

 

On my trip to Chad last year, I visited Ennedi in the south of the Sahara Desert in the northeast of Chad, there are no giraffes there today, but there are rock paintings of giraffes 

 

Rock art at Dibirké shelter, Degedey Mountain, Ennedi Chad

 

It is no great surprise that there are these paintings of giraffes, since at one time during the African Humid Period, the Sahara was not a desert, but lush green lightly wooded savannah, when I looked at these images of what must be Kordofan Giraffes, like the ones in Zakouma down in the southeast of Chad, I did wonder thinking about the Angolan Giraffes I'd seen in Namibia in the desert, if in fact giraffes survived in the Sahara long after the humid period ended and the desert formed, if Angolan giraffes can survive in a landscape such as the one in that last Namibian shot, then surely Kordofan Giraffes might be able to survive in landscape such as the one in these photos of Ennedi, that have many more trees than that Namibian shot.

 

 

 

Young shepherd chasing his flock, Ennedi, Chad 

 

This led me to wonder how long ago giraffes really did disappear from Ennedi and whether it might even be possible to reintroduce them, if you look at Iona NP on Google Earth and zoom right in it doesn't look like it could possibly a good place for giraffes and yet in a few years it will likely have a healthy population of Angolan Giraffes living there. Whilst giraffes no longer survive actually in the Sahara, only last year a new and unknown population of Kordofan giraffes in Chad was discovered at a place called Koundjourou in the Sahel region, some 34 giraffes were counted there, these are the most northerly giraffes in Chad. I would imagine though that they could survive well enough further north, as the the Gadabedji Reserve in neighbouring Niger where GCF recently reintroduced West African Giraffes is somewhat further north of Koundjourou, but not as far north as Ennedi, I don't imagine that AP has plans to reintroduce giraffes to Ennedi, I'm just interested to speculate as to whether it would be possible and wonder when the last giraffes did disappear from the area

 

New population of critically endangered Kordofan giraffes found in Chad

Edited June 22, 2023 by inyathi