This video was created by California Waterfowl to promote understanding of hunting's place in a healthy balanced ecosystem and to help hunters explain how hunting intimately connects us to our environment, especially through the food we eat and share with others.
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A family regularly shares breakfast with a colony of giraffes that poke their heads through the window of their home in Kenya.
By A Telegraph Correspondent
Published: 1:06PM BST 21 Jul 2009
Tanya Carr-Hartley and children Sala (5) and one-year-old twins Tisa and Kinna: Family share breakfast table with giraffes
Every day shortly before 9am the beasts stroll up to the house and poke their heads through the windows and doors in search of morning treats Photo: CATERS NEWS
Tanya and Mikey Carr-Hartley live in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro on a 140-acre estate, which is home to eight Rothschild giraffes, some of the rarest on the planet.
Every day shortly before 9am the beasts stroll up to the house and poke their heads through the windows and doors in search of morning treats.
The couple spend breakfast sipping orange juice and picking at croissants, literally sharing their dining table with the world's tallest mammal.
Now the pair are sharing the mesmerising experience with the outside world by opening the manor gates to guests at the world's only giraffe hotel.
The couple spent their childhood living close to the house in Nairobi, Kenya and have always been fascinated with the creatures.
"Mikey and I grew up near to this manor house," said Mrs Carr-Hartley.
"We are both third generation Kenyans who have always wanted to work in conservation.
"Mikey's family have been involved in the protection of animals for many generations.
"His grandad was even involved in the relocation of giraffes as far back as the 1930s. Moving the giraffes ensured their protection and continued existence.
"When the house came up for sale we jumped at the chance to buy it as we had always dreamed of one day owning it."
Giraffe Manor is home to eight Rothschild giraffes, they are some of the rarest on earth second only to the Niger giraffe, with only a few hundred left in the wild.
A conservation project to save them was started at the manor In 1974 when the grandson of a Scottish Earl, Jock Leslie Melville, and his American wife, Betty, bought the stately home.
Later that year they moved two endangered Rothschild giraffe onto the estate, where third and fourth generations live on.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/5877815/Family-share-breakfast-table-in-Africa-with-giraffes.html
By A Telegraph Correspondent
Published: 1:06PM BST 21 Jul 2009
Tanya Carr-Hartley and children Sala (5) and one-year-old twins Tisa and Kinna: Family share breakfast table with giraffes
Every day shortly before 9am the beasts stroll up to the house and poke their heads through the windows and doors in search of morning treats Photo: CATERS NEWS
Tanya and Mikey Carr-Hartley live in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro on a 140-acre estate, which is home to eight Rothschild giraffes, some of the rarest on the planet.
Every day shortly before 9am the beasts stroll up to the house and poke their heads through the windows and doors in search of morning treats.
The couple spend breakfast sipping orange juice and picking at croissants, literally sharing their dining table with the world's tallest mammal.
Now the pair are sharing the mesmerising experience with the outside world by opening the manor gates to guests at the world's only giraffe hotel.
The couple spent their childhood living close to the house in Nairobi, Kenya and have always been fascinated with the creatures.
"Mikey and I grew up near to this manor house," said Mrs Carr-Hartley.
"We are both third generation Kenyans who have always wanted to work in conservation.
"Mikey's family have been involved in the protection of animals for many generations.
"His grandad was even involved in the relocation of giraffes as far back as the 1930s. Moving the giraffes ensured their protection and continued existence.
"When the house came up for sale we jumped at the chance to buy it as we had always dreamed of one day owning it."
Giraffe Manor is home to eight Rothschild giraffes, they are some of the rarest on earth second only to the Niger giraffe, with only a few hundred left in the wild.
A conservation project to save them was started at the manor In 1974 when the grandson of a Scottish Earl, Jock Leslie Melville, and his American wife, Betty, bought the stately home.
Later that year they moved two endangered Rothschild giraffe onto the estate, where third and fourth generations live on.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/5877815/Family-share-breakfast-table-in-Africa-with-giraffes.html
According to ARAs this is unnatural
An elephant produced an impromptu balancing act to make the most of an opportunity to get its trunk on a treat.
Elephant: It reached out its long trunk out to gently grab the food from the toddler tourist who was being held up by his father. Photo: BNPS
The animal spotted a curious toddler holding a snack clambered up onto a narrow wall on the edge of its enclosure to snatch it.
Balancing on its tiptoes the elephant teetered precariously on the four inch wide ledge.
It then reached out its long trunk out to gently grab the food from the toddler tourist who was being held up by his father.
The moment was captured by amateur photographer Tobias Haase, during a visit to Hamburg Zoo in Germany.
Mr Haase, 34, from Hamburg, said: "The zoo is famous for its open animal areas.
"They keep the harmless animals like elephants in these enclosures without a real fence – just a big ditch which they can't jump over.
"People bring vegetables and other green food to give to the elephants – it's not forbidden and they love it.
"They're quite used to it and have learned to reach over and pluck the food out of visitors' hands.
"Sometimes they even do a bit of acrobatics to get there.
"On this day, the elephant was particularly agile. It saw the tourist holding out a bit of food and scrambled up on the ledge.
"It teetered there for a while, trying not to wobble off, as it stretched its trunk out for the food.
"It stayed there for a while trying to get more before it climbed down.
"It even looked like it was nodding thank you to the tourist before it wandered off into its enclosure."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6162152/Elephant-produces-balancing-act-to-snatch-treat.html
Elephant: It reached out its long trunk out to gently grab the food from the toddler tourist who was being held up by his father. Photo: BNPS
The animal spotted a curious toddler holding a snack clambered up onto a narrow wall on the edge of its enclosure to snatch it.
Balancing on its tiptoes the elephant teetered precariously on the four inch wide ledge.
It then reached out its long trunk out to gently grab the food from the toddler tourist who was being held up by his father.
The moment was captured by amateur photographer Tobias Haase, during a visit to Hamburg Zoo in Germany.
Mr Haase, 34, from Hamburg, said: "The zoo is famous for its open animal areas.
"They keep the harmless animals like elephants in these enclosures without a real fence – just a big ditch which they can't jump over.
"People bring vegetables and other green food to give to the elephants – it's not forbidden and they love it.
"They're quite used to it and have learned to reach over and pluck the food out of visitors' hands.
"Sometimes they even do a bit of acrobatics to get there.
"On this day, the elephant was particularly agile. It saw the tourist holding out a bit of food and scrambled up on the ledge.
"It teetered there for a while, trying not to wobble off, as it stretched its trunk out for the food.
"It stayed there for a while trying to get more before it climbed down.
"It even looked like it was nodding thank you to the tourist before it wandered off into its enclosure."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6162152/Elephant-produces-balancing-act-to-snatch-treat.html
Baboons steal rooftop luggage
Bosses at Knowsley Safari Park are warning motorists to beware of the baboons, after the animals learned how to open rooftop luggage and began stealing items such as underwear after helping themselves to the contents.
A Different Perspective
These photographs were taken by David Chancellor, a British photographer and won 3rd prize in the People in the News category of the 2010 world Press Photo contest.
Gonarezhou National Park, Zimbabwe
Local villagers fall upon the body of a dead elephant, starved of meat they reduce the huge carcass to bones in under 2 hours.
24 hours later the bones have also gone, all that's visible are the fresh tracks from the remaining elephants returning to Mozambique under cover of darkness.
While an affluent, well nourished North American may find these images disturbing, even disgusting, an empty belly soon gives a person a different perspective.
Gonarezhou National Park, Zimbabwe
Local villagers fall upon the body of a dead elephant, starved of meat they reduce the huge carcass to bones in under 2 hours.
24 hours later the bones have also gone, all that's visible are the fresh tracks from the remaining elephants returning to Mozambique under cover of darkness.
While an affluent, well nourished North American may find these images disturbing, even disgusting, an empty belly soon gives a person a different perspective.
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