Why's that? Don't think they've ever had any problems. The giraffe usually ignore the cars unless someone tries feeding them. Quite a cool experience actually
The giraffe's are fine, it's the camel's heads in the car that's the problem!
One sniff of food and they are in there, they dribble all over the place, and I wouldn't want a bite from one of them either !
So - what would happen in this situation? Presumably they'd either have to wait 2m away until the giraffe moved or go off-road and go around it?
Does Australia have any of the UK-type safari parks where visitors take in their own cars? Would seem that the regs you mention would make it pretty much unworkable unless the animals were held off the road by fences - at which point why bother with the cars?
So - what would happen in this situation? Presumably they'd either have to wait 2m away until the giraffe moved or go off-road and go around it?
Does Australia have any of the UK-type safari parks where visitors take in their own cars? Would seem that the regs you mention would make it pretty much unworkable unless the animals were held off the road by fences - at which point why bother with the cars?
Yes the tours do need to wait until the giraffes move or go around it. Once at Dubbo Zoo the three giraffes in the main savannah didn't feel like moving and stayed in front of the gate for a good twenty minutes. I didn't mind but the other passengers did and the tour guide was apologizing profusley.
And no we don't have any safaris that you are allowed to drive your own car through. There were a couple of decades ago but all are closed now.
When giraffes are startled or get a fright, they kick. It's a reflex, the same way we jump when we hear a door slam. And when a giraffe kicks it can have devastating effects. Giraffes in the wild have been seen to kill a lion with one well-placed kick.
I'd be concerned about the person in the passenger seat too.
When giraffes are startled or get a fright, they kick. It's a reflex, the same way we jump when we hear a door slam. And when a giraffe kicks it can have devastating effects. Giraffes in the wild have been seen to kill a lion with one well-placed kick.
I'd be concerned about the person in the passenger seat too.
Maybe its just a question of exposure - having been used to going round safari parks in cars surrounded by giraffes, rhinos, lions, tigers, bears, baboons, wolves, buffalo, bison, banteng, hunting dogs, large antelope etc all my life I'm acclimatised to how they work. The animals are used to it too - they often wander right in front of cars and between two lines of (moving) cars with the utmost confidence. The chances of any animals (barring perhaps new arrivals) panicking and doing any harm are very small.
The worst ones, as noted above, are the camels. They had two keeper vehicles monitoring them to stop people feeding them.
