Giraffes occupy a part of Africa nothing else reaches. Above the dust, above eye level, moving with that long unhurried drift that makes them look like they belong to a different version of time. I was heading back to the lodge in Soysambu when I saw them on the skyline — a tower of giraffe, silhouetted against a storm that hadn’t broken, drifting across the ridge. The conservancy was empty. No other vehicles. The air smelled of rain coming. I stepped out with both cameras and waited. He stood facing me — curious, cautious, neither of us moving. I noticed his legs first. Pale, unpatched, almost white against the dark grass, as if he’d pulled on white socks before stepping onto the plain. I named him Hadiza — one with no desire. That is exactly how I felt. Giraffes were long treated as a single species with nine subspecies. New genetics split them into four — Northern, Reticulated, Masai, and Southern. The Rothschild’s falls under Nubian — Northern Giraffe. #WorldGiraffeDay #Rot...