Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
We saw a pregnant female giraffe and later a male giraffe walking in the bush in the Karongwe Private Game Reserve, South Africa. Our guide said you can use the horn-like protrusions from giraffe's heads (ossicones) to help distinguish males from females. Females’ ossicones are thinner and have tufts of hair on the top while the males’ ossicones are larger and tend to be balled and knobbed on top. Male giraffes range from 16-18 feet tall and weigh as much as 4,200 lbs while females reach 14-16 feet tall and weigh up to 2,600 lbs.
This experience was part of The Great Southern African Safari organized by G Adventures working in partnership with National Geographic Expeditions.
You can read about the technical aspects of this trip in the 'Tech on Travel - The Africa Edition' blog post by Allison Sheridan at
podfeet.com/blog/2024/09/tech-on-travel-africa
We saw a pregnant female giraffe and later a male giraffe walking in the bush in the Karongwe Private Game Reserve, South Africa. Our guide said you can use the horn-like protrusions from giraffe's heads (ossicones) to help distinguish males from females. Females’ ossicones are thinner and have tufts of hair on the top while the males’ ossicones are larger and tend to be balled and knobbed on top. Male giraffes range from 16-18 feet tall and weigh as much as 4,200 lbs while females reach 14-16 feet tall and weigh up to 2,600 lbs.
This experience was part of The Great Southern African Safari organized by G Adventures working in partnership with National Geographic Expeditions.
You can read about the technical aspects of this trip in the 'Tech on Travel - The Africa Edition' blog post by Allison Sheridan at
podfeet.com/blog/2024/09/tech-on-travel-africa
