Rare White Giraffes Cause a Stir in Kenya

[riversedge]

I missed this earlier. I hope no harm comes to these animals. So beautiful





Rare White Giraffes Cause a Stir in Kenya



https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/16/world/africa/rare-white-giraffe-kenya.html?action=click&contentCollection=Science&module=RelatedCoverage&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

By Yonette Joseph
Sept. 16, 2017
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A rare white giraffe and her calf in Kenya. Video footage of the duo is believed to be the first of its kind.CreditHirola Conservation Program/Caters

A villager in Kenya was herding animals one day recently when he came upon a head-turning sight. A ghostly creature with a mighty long neck was grazing off in the distance.

Upon closer inspection, the vision was revealed to be a female reticulated giraffe — tall, majestic and preternaturally white — and she was accompanied by a smaller apparition: a pale baby giraffe.

The sightings in June, in Garissa County near the Ishaqbini Hirola Conservancy, sent the villager scurrying off to tell rangers, the founder of the Hirola Conservation Program said on Thursday. The news has been ricocheting across continents and making headlines ever since.

Conservationists who hurried to the site managed to capture what is believed to be the first known video footage of white giraffes, said Abdullahi H. Ali, who founded Hirola and has been working to conserve the critically endangered hirola antelope in the eastern part of the country..............................

[procon]

1. They're so beautiful! I hope they will be safe given all this public exposure. nt

[Submariner]

2. There's a lowlife trophy hunter in Texas, Oklahoma, or some other gun jumper state

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trying to broker a hunting deal to go kill himself/herself a white giraffe right now. You can bet on it.

For the sensitive

[Docreed2003]

3. Disgusting!

[riversedge]

6. crap. wish I have not seen this horrible pic.

[Nitram]

7. Is it necessary to post such disgusting photos? It reminds me of the anti-abortion protestors

outside Planned Parenthood clinics with signs bearing photos of aborted fetuses. I don't imagine there is a single member of DU who still needs to be persuaded that this kind of killing is obscene.

[3catwoman3]

4. I wish I had not...

...looked at those other pictures.

There are many days when I like animals better than people.

[Solly Mack]

5. I hope they survive the ignorance and cruelty of humans.

I like the so-called lower animals far better than I do the human variety.

[kimbutgar]

8. Dont let Don Jr near these beautiful animals