We’re goin’ to the zoo, zoo, zoo

This month Becky’s Squares are focusing on odd things – you can interpret this any way you want so I am going to take you all to the zoo this month. San Diego Zoo to be precise and the photos featured will be either odd looking animals, animals with odd names, odd facts or slightly odd photos. I hope you’ll enjoy my selection.

Day Six

Giraffes have a small hump on their back and have a spotted pattern similar to that of a leopard. For a long time people called the giraffe a “camel-leopard,” because they believed that it was a combination of a camel and a leopard. That’s where the giraffe’s name camelopardalis comes from!

Giraffe coat colours vary from light tan to practically black. Masai giraffes, from Kenya, have patterns that look like oak leaves. Uganda or Rothschild’s giraffes sport large, brown splotches separated by thick, beige lines. The reticulated giraffe, found only in northern Kenya, has a dark coat with a seeming web of narrow white lines.

If you want to join in either daily, weekly or just on the odd occasion then please visit Becky, the only rule is that the main photo MUST be a square – that is four equal sides! You have been warned 😉

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Heyjude

I have lived in the UK for most of my life, but when young I definitely had wanderlust and even ended up living in South Africa for several years which was a wonderful experience. I now look forward to a long and leisurely retirement doing what I like most - gardening, photography, walking and travelling.

26 thoughts on “We’re goin’ to the zoo, zoo, zoo”

  6. I have never seen a real giraffe. But a motel/restaurant in town has a stuffed one in the lobby. HUGE!
    Sad … to see it stuffed. 😦

      1. I don’t know. I dined there twice years ago. Could be – but looked real to me.
        Of course I wouldn’t recognize a counterfeit one dollar bill. 😉

  8. Giraffes always seem clumsy and delicate at the same time, and your picture captures this. I dare say we look awfully strange to them. We have stayed with friends at the San Diego Botanical Garden but I’ve never had chance to visit the zoo.

  9. Before going to Kenya, I had only ever seen small groups of Giraffes in zoos. I was amazed to see them in large herds in the wild, a very impressive sight indeed.
    Best wishes, Pete. x

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