We have got giraffe 5 minutes down the road and only see them a few times a year as they are on the other side of the hill out of view normally. An old friend of ours lives there and he feeds them trucking in food weekly and why they don't wander around looking for food. They live outside his house permanently much to the annoyance of other residents in the eco estate.
It sounds like they are almost pests in Africa 😀
To us they were really cool to see...
No not at all we all love them and my old friend keeps them by his side as he feeds them and they just stick around his spot. Whenever we see them we try and park up and watch them for a few minutes as they are one of our favorite animals.
Do you remember the story about the giraffe hitting an over head pass? This was the officials trying to remove the giraffe from this eco estate as they said the food Giraffes eat was not native to the area. They were right as now we have Acacia trees growing everywhere from the Giraffes weekly food delivery. I had two growing in my garden and had to chop them down as they are a thorn tree that grows faster than a weed.
Didn't see that story :) It must be because these trees are not native to Africa, in Ukraine those Acacia trees grow very slowly...
They are native here as most of the bush has these trees except that is 200 kilometers away from this area and why they wanted to move the Giraffes away. No point now as these trees are everywhere and only took a few years to take over.