I Kissed a Giraffe, and I Think I Liked It…

I recently spent a couple weeks in Kenya mostly working from sunup to sundown with Dr. Louise Leakey of the Turkana Basin Institute, Deming Yang of the National Museums of Kenya and my colleague Gonzalo Martinez.of Autodesk. I thought I might share a fun photo with you from the Giraffe Centre located just outside Nairobi Kenya before our research work in Northern Kenya began.

So here is me taking a big wet kiss from a rare female Rothschild Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi.)

http://flic.kr/p/cd41a7

Trivia: Giraffes can have a 50cm (about 19-1/2”) long sandpaper textures tongue with a slimy grass flavored slime coating.

I am still awaiting the call from this Giraffe, but sadly she has not called me yet.

-Shaan

13 comments

Earl Kubaskie says:

Can you blame her? The long distance charges alone! Maybe she’s just an old-fasioned girl and expects the guy to take the lead.
Call her, man. Call.
You heartbreaker.

My key learning from Kenya, that may apply to this: haraka haraka haina baraka!
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Pete Southwood says:

I pity the Giraffe…what a hairy Homo Erectus!

Pete Southwood says:

I know…I know…Homo Erectus is extinct…play on words etc.

Amanda Cortez says:

This is awesome! Thanks for the laugh 🙂

Rohit Arora says:

But Shaan, did she like it?

I think she liked the kiss as much as I did, but still no call from her on our next date.
Hakuna Matata

Julie Hayes says:

I think I kissed that same giraffe outside Nairobi in 2005. What a ‘licker’!

Julie Wilder says:

This is the most fun I’ve had reading a posting on infosys in a long time. Thanks for the smile! I bet the giraffe will never forget that kiss! Nor you, Shaan!

Fiona says:

Lucky you!

Tara Glass says:

This made me smile! Really cute story!

David Lorenz says:

Made my day. Thx for posting/getting kissed 🙂
Giraffe wrote in her notes:
Trivia: Human have a patchy hair facial and no tongue at all. However they wear funny things on their nose…

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