Posted on 03/10/2020 1:41:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The Kenya Wildlife Service was called to the reserve after it was reported the giraffes hadn’t been seen in quite a while.
Upon finding the bones, wildlife officials estimated they had been there for at least four months.
“This is a very sad day for the community of Ijara and Kenya as a whole. We are the only community in the world who are custodians of the white giraffes,” said Mohammed Ahmednoor, manager of the reserve in Garissa County, Kenya, in a news release.
The animals got their unique coloring from a condition known as leucism, which is a genetic condition that causes the giraffes’ skin cells to fail to produce pigmentation. That results in white, pale or patchy coloration of their hide.
Unlike albinism, animals with leucism continue to produce a dark pigment in their soft tissue, meaning the giraffes’ eyes were dark.
The world’s tallest land animal has lost 40% of its population in just 30 years from poaching and wildlife trafficking, the African Wildlife Foundation estimates.
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The giblets are already on their way to China as a cure for WuFlu, impotence, etc. The rest is being used for African muti.
Im betting that Xi or one of the other more equal pigs couldn’t get it up.
Tragic. It’s still the lost continent.
With animals, we can see the very best in people, and the very worst.
I know a lady who lived in Kenya.
She says crime there is absolutely out of control.
It is right next door and they often come across to poach.
It they get caught they are often shot out of hand.
Yeah they’re not cultured like us :)
Other than WWI, WWII, 100 year war, Napoleon’s disastrous invasion, Russian/Sino war, slavery and a million other western wars and acts where the idea was to kill or enslave as many of the enemy as possible and in MANY cases rape as many of the women as possible, we’re way ahead of them in civility :)
“Upon finding the bones, wildlife officials estimated they had been there for at least four months.”
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“We are the only community in the world who are custodians of the white giraffes,”
Not very diligent custodians if it took them four months to notice their giant 25 ft tall albino horsies were missing.
Well:
https://www.africancraftsmarket.com/products/animal-skins/Giraffe-skin.html
$2000 for a regular giraffe hide, I can only imagine what an albino one goes for.
“It they get caught they are often shot out of hand.”
Good. Summary execution is an under-appreciated deterrent.
Open season on poachers would be ok with me. Just sayin...
Great security!
The poachers and the buyer of these should have been beaten to a pulp, then skinned slowly. Such beautiful rare animals taken by subhuman savages. The Africans are selling their wildlife heritage to the highest bidder. G-d should have chosen stewards of His creations who had more integrity.
It's always pecker problems with them.
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