National Geographic UK - 10.2019

An orphaned giraffe nuzzles a caregiver at Sarara Camp in north- ern Kenya. Samburu cattle herders found the abandoned calf and ...

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ALL THE LARGE AFRICAN MAMMALS that wildlife veterinarian Pete Morkel has had to capture over his career—lions, forest elephants, ...

Morkel has loaded his dart gun with a dose of etorphine, an opioid about 6,000 times more powerful than morphine. Once it penetr ...

Conservationist Ivan Carter grabs a darted Nubian giraffe as the sedative kicks in. The giraffe and 17 others were moved from th ...

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30 years, making them one of the world’s most critically endangered large mammals. The giraffes of Niger are scarcer still, and ...

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area was host to ancestors of these giraffes as well. The translocation is not without critics. “If giraffes are in danger in th ...

Wildlife personnel pull a dead giraffe from a poacher’s snare in Amboseli, Kenya. A single animal can yield 650 pounds of valu- ...

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Kenyan wildlife experts approach a reticulated giraffe that has been tranquilized in the Loisaba Wildlife Con- servancy. They’ll ...

Workers load a West African giraffe into a trailer. Later it will be moved 500 miles to Niger’s northeast Gadabedji Biosphere Re ...

get together for a period of time before dissolv- ing. Other species with fission-fusion societies, such as elephants and chimpa ...

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In Chad’s Zakouma National Park, Kordofan giraffes rub necks— possibly a prelude to fighting or some other form of communica- ti ...

A Kenyan student mod- els a mask during a visit to her school by the Twiga Walinzi—Giraffe Guards—a conserva- tion team whose wo ...

for twice-a-day feeds beneath gao trees and a three-hour nap for the crew, we finally arrive at Gadabedji, where we’re greeted b ...