The giraffes who check daily on the man who rescued them
Sarah Abraham
The British Guardian posted a photo of a giraffe who was rescued by a man called Lekupania who works in the north of Kenya in the Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy.
Lekupania found this giraffe, a baby at the time, when he fell into a ditch. He rehabilitated him and returned him to the wild. He has done this with other injured giraffes. And with other animal kinds.
The giraffes trek daily to the stables of their recuperation and then return to the wild.
Only the giraffes do this.
This conservancy is in the territory of the Samburu, a semi-nomadic tribe of cattle-herders.
They, their cattle, their way of life and all the wildlife among whom they live and about whom they have unparalleled knowledge,
are under extreme pressure for changes to their ecology and climate. This is also true of all tribes living in territories contiguous with that of the Samburu on either side of the Kenyan-Ethiopian border who keep cattle and camels.
This photo was taken in 2016 by Ami Vitale who saw this encounter from some distance and approached quietly and quickly to take this shot.
