Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Great catch with the "gay" giraffe. I guess the Africans, given their medieval attitudes to homosexuality, would not want their wildlife to be gay ;-) But I am sure it is just amount dominance. Sometimes my (female) dog "mounts" my (male) cat for the same reason Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Oct 3, 2011, at 6:28 AM, H&ECummer wrote: > Hello again Luggers, > Here are two more pictures form Samburu - both taken by Esther with the > GH2 and the 45 - 200 zoom. > When you start your first African safari you tend to shoot everything in > sight - fearful that you'll not see another example. > After a few days you get more selective and by the end of the first week > you are telling the driver to drive by scenes that you would have worked > over when you were starting out. > Here are two early pictures of giraffes when they were still new to us. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Kenya/3GirRivXw.jpg.html > > http://tinyurl.com/3vwt3fm > > And here are three young male giraffes fooling around. Our wild life guide > Divya Mudappa assured us that the male giraffe mounting his boy friend was > not gay - he was just showing his dominance as young males want to do. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Kenya/DomiGiraffesw.jpg.html > > http://tinyurl.com/3l5v7w4 > > C&C always welcome. > > Please view large > > Cheers > Howard > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >