Measuring 4.5 to 5.7 meters high with the males growing to 6 meters sometimes, the world's tallest mammal, the rosy child or Nubian Giraffes were introduced in the Lake Mburo National Park located in Kiruhura district 54km from Mbarara city.
While on a game drive in the Lake Mburo National Park with the well-versed tour guide Asiingwiire Rebecca, she noted that"Fifteen individuals were introduced in the park when they were translocated from Murchison Falls National Park in July 2015."
Asiingwiire highlights a few interesting features about a giraffe noting that the Nubian giraffes grow older their rectangular patterns each different from the other, do not actually cover the whole body but stop in the knees, grow darker and have whitish legs. "Several males can be seen in a herd of giraffes but when one male is exercising the mating rights," Asingwire says.
The seven elongated bones in their neck enables them feed on trees of different heights and on shorter trees, they bend their necks and legs
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