# @deannadeshea on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ2dzYPIJ-q
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/67285863-deannadeshea-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-06-21T14:18:57.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Deanna DeShea (@deannadeshea) — https://gondola.cc/deannadeshea

## Caption

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 #RothschildsGiraffe #Soysambu #GiraffeConservation #AfricaWildlife

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giraffeconservation, africawildlife, soysambu, rothschildsgiraffe, worldgiraffeday

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