{"id":12603,"date":"2019-10-04T06:05:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T10:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=12603"},"modified":"2019-10-04T06:05:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T10:05:27","slug":"rothschilds-giraffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=12603","title":{"rendered":"Rothschild\u2019s Giraffe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Among Uganda\u2019s National Parks and Reserves, Murchinson Falls is the only one that supports the kind of herds of the bigger animals that you associate with Kenya or Tanzania or South Africa. In fact, I have never seen larger herds of Giraffes than we saw at Murchinson Falls. Giraffes generally go in bunches to graze…not as solitary individuals…and bunch of Giraffes in the landscape together is called a \u201cherd\u201d or a \u201cjourney\u201d or a \u201ctower\u201d, depending on which authority you check. Tower is pretty obvious in its derivation, but not, in fact, very descriptive. While Giraffes might tower as individuals, they don\u2019t group up into anything like a tower. Herd is too prosaic for consideration. Which leaves a \u201cjourney of Giraffes,\u201d which certainly captures more of the feeling of Giraffes as you actually see them in the verdant expanse that is Murchinson Falls in September when the rains have started. The Murchinson\u2019s Giraffes are Rothschild\u2019s Giraffes, the most endangered of the three sub-species of common Giraffe…the Masai (the most widespread in Kenya and Tanzania), the Reticulated with a limited range in Kenya, and the Rothschild\u2019s, common only at Murchinson Falls National Park here in Uganda and in a healthy introduced herd in Lake Nakuru National Reserve in Kenya. The panel presented here tries to capture both the felling of the mass of Giraffes at Murhinson Falls, and the grander of the creature. These are from our first encounter with Giraffes on this trip with #Epic_Uganda_Vacations. Sony RX10iv at various focal lengths. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Polarr and Apple Photos, and assembled in FrameMagic. <\/p>\n

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