Endangered Species In Their Natural Environment

Mum returns from a quilting trip in Kenya (including a proper safari) and sends me a few photos.

This is a Rothschild Giraffe called Laura. Funnily enough, I visited the eponymous Walter Rothschild’s museum of stuffed animals in Tring a few weeks ago. Favourite exhibits included the elephant seal high up in the dark on top of the display cases, underlit as if he were on a stage reciting a soliloquy. Plus two fleas dressed as Mexican farmers, a gynandromorph bird – male on one side, female on the other – and a bowler hat containing a wasps’ nest. 45 minutes from Euston.

This photo isn’t a trick of perspective – Laura really is that big a girl.

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Orphaned baby elephants, wearing blankets for heatstroke because they have no parent to shelter under:

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And left over in the family camera from a few months ago, an example of flaneur dickonsius, grazing.  Taken by Dad at the Paddington Bear stall in Paddington Station.

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