John_Stone Report This Comment Date: September 15, 2005 06:27PM
A researcher in Africa has finally spotted the rare white giraffe that he's been
seeking for twelve years, and he's got a photograph to prove it.
Charles Foley, a Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) researcher, first heard
rumors of the white giraffe in 1993 when he was working in Tanzania's Tarangire
National Park doing research on savanna elephants.
"I assumed it had died, either at the hand of man or best," he said.
"I never stopped looking though."
Foley's persistence paid off this summer. While conducting a routine aerial
survey of a group of the park's elephants, he spotted a white speck in the
distance.
"I looked…blinked…looked again…and it was still there," Foley
said.
Foley told his pilot to make another pass over the spot and managed to snap a
photograph of the white giraffe just as they flew over the trees.
"The proof is there to see—a mostly white giraffe with small dark
blotches on its body," Foley said. "Only the bottom half of its legs
were the more traditional brown color."
[
www.livescience.com]
Kuleiro Report This Comment Date: September 15, 2005 06:59PM
wooo
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 15, 2005 08:55PM
Interesting. So... is it truly a white giraffe or just an albino variation of
the "common" species?
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 15, 2005 09:22PM
"Foley told his pilot to make another pass over the spot and managed to
snap a photograph of the white giraffe just as they flew over the trees."
How do giraffes fly over trees?...Please see post on pot smoking (snicker
snicker...)
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 15, 2005 11:19PM
its photoshop!
gruff Report This Comment Date: September 15, 2005 11:50PM
cool. most likely an albino, 19472. if it was a subspecies there'd be more.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 15, 2005 11:53PM
This poor bastard work all those years and you guys rag on him, this is not the
place to brag about your findings, it's a tough crowd here. Oh well life isn't
fair..it's a bitch to be you..
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 16, 2005 12:21AM
I am usually not the one to say everything is a photoshop, but in this case...
JohnMcClane Report This Comment Date: September 16, 2005 01:58AM
Yeah, it does seem to be shopped.
anon Report This Comment Date: September 16, 2005 07:54AM
You're quick to jump in with both feet, 160145. The use of "they"
makes that sentence quite unambiguous, so your comment demonstrates only your
own inadequacy...as does, [snicker snicker (sic)] laughing at your own =attempt=
at humour.
John_Stone Report This Comment Date: September 16, 2005 05:52PM
Funny about the 'shopping comments. i found this pic on the livescience
website (link provided, yo). So if anyone shopped it, it was the photographer
his own damn self. I sure didn't. And I don't think livescience would publish
a 'shopped photo either.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 16, 2005 09:14PM
It was a perfectly normal giraffe until that plane flew over at head height and
scared the shit out of it.
gruff Report This Comment Date: September 16, 2005 09:28PM
It's a token.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: September 28, 2005 12:34AM
everyones always keepin the white giraffe down man!
John_Stone Report This Comment Date: October 09, 2005 12:18PM
Uh, White Giraffe Power..?
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: October 10, 2005 09:14AM
Racial discrimination!! Why are you not giving equal attention to black
giraffes?
