{"id":13998,"date":"2010-04-05T08:10:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T08:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/south-african-photo-safari-%e2%80%93-giraffe-not-exactly-rocket-science\/"},"modified":"2010-04-05T08:10:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T08:10:12","slug":"south-african-photo-safari-%e2%80%93-giraffe-not-exactly-rocket-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/south-african-photo-safari-%e2%80%93-giraffe-not-exactly-rocket-science.php","title":{"rendered":"South African photo safari \u2013 giraffe | Not Exactly Rocket Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The giraffe was the first species we saw on our South African safari last year (actually the second but, seriously, impala don&rsquo;t count). Like many of Africa&rsquo;s large mammals, it moves with remarkable grace for something so large and it disappears behind shrubbery with remarkable ease for something so tall.<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1216\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/fca3e_Giraffe1.jpg\" alt=\"Giraffe1\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p><span><\/span><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1218\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5ada7_Giraffe3-542x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Giraffe3\" width=\"400\" height=\"756\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1220\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5ada7_Giraffe4.jpg\" alt=\"Giraffe4\" width=\"600\" height=\"697\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><br>These two are youngsters, left behind at a feeding creche. The one of the left is probably a female, given the tufts of hair on the top of her horns.<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1221\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5ada7_Giraffes_feeding.jpg\" alt=\"Giraffes_feeding\" width=\"600\" height=\"374\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/edyong209\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5ada7_Twitter.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"38\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Not-Exactly-Rocket-Science\/209972267204?ref=ts\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/bdb76_Facebook.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"38\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/notrocketscience\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/bdb76_Feed.jpg\" alt=\"Feed.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"38\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Not-Exactly-Rocket-Science-Yong\/dp\/1409242285\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/bdb76_Book.jpg\" alt=\"Book.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"38\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/bdb76_a3uVWtYZfIY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The giraffe was the first species we saw on our South African safari last year (actually the second but, seriously, impala don&rsquo;t count). Like many of Africa&rsquo;s large mammals, it moves with remarkable grace for something so large and it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/south-african-photo-safari-%e2%80%93-giraffe-not-exactly-rocket-science.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}