The new baringo giraffe calf at the Bronx Zoo just took her first steps out with mom, and she’s already getting busy — grazin’ in the grass, practicing with her new tongue, and galloping off on an impromptu butterfly hunt.
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THIS JUST IN: Grazin’ Gallopin’ Giraffe
April 17, 2012 By
i love the expresssion at 0:33 – what a cutie!
I love that, the “Mom, people are watching!”
Yes! “MOooOOM!”
*insert sarcastic eyeroll*
So much to explore! Beautiful.
Looks like someone is digging for gold in 0:19
baaahhh hhahahaah I saw that too – wondered whether I was the only one to find that abso-friggin-lutely hilarious
(apparently I’m not!)
ALWAYS cracks me up when they lick their noses. It’s like they’re showin’ off!
Kids and boogers, it’s universal!
Just think what you’d see if kids had giraffe-sized tongues *shudder*
How I envy that baby giraffe, everything is new and exiting to her and every day is a new adventure.
Signed: feeling old and burned-out today.
Sounds like you need to follow the bebeh giraffe’s example and stick your neck out once in a while.
Or you could just have a drink. That’s what I’m doing.
Who am I to argue with the great Oakley? A drink it is!
weeee! sage advice from the Oak!
*hic*
Thank you! Just what I needed!!
I’m doing Pajama Story Time in fifteen minutes, if you’d like to attend. Might make you feel better.
Wish I could, I love being read to.
Know what would be REALLY great? Pajama Story Time with cocktails!
I’m in the Lounge. What have we for coc*tails (which I think is what got me sent here)?
YES!!!
*handing Gigi a drink, opening Goodnight Moon, clearing throat*
I’ll hav a mojito with my story time, please!
As has been noted here before, giraffes have that thing going on where their chests look like ‘tocks. At one point during this movie I was thinking the baby’s neck was attached to the wrong end.
Or am I just tired?
She’s all “mmm, the world is so delicious!” [bounces off]
How beautiful *sigh* The Bronx, you say? *gets right on subway*
Ohhhh how I wish I looked that graceful and elegant when I got out for a run.
I know, right? She’s a very good galloper.
I”M SO GLAD that CO provided us with accurate descriptions to be able to locate the giraffe in the photo
Bonus Music Reference:
a rhinestoned mouse computer-y (photo) to him/ her who identifies the earliest American pop – ularity of the phrase “Grazin’ in the Grass” …..
HINT: IT PREDATED THE innernets (at least predated peeps havin’ the innernets on HOME computers….)
I can digdigdigdig it, they can digdigdigdig it, can you dig it, baby? FIfth Dimension?
eine excellente guesse, in SEVERAL ways
(which I can’t give away presently b/c it would lead peeps to the artist of whom my quershtyun is intending…)
but no ma’am
The lyrics quotations however are precisely on point!!!!
Fird: Are you perhaps looking for “Friends of Distinction”?
I still have to give props to Hugh Masekela.
The song was already an international hit before 5D added lyrics to it. Hugh Masakela. Here’s the original, which would make the perfect soundtrack to the video above:
The first thing I thought of HP !
According to the links I found,
It seems the name of the song’s author/ composer is listed as Philemon Hou.
(However, see the ***’d line below)
Hugh Masekela recorded an album in March 1968. The album was called The Promise of a Future.
According to this link, Gr/ Gr is somewhat based on an earlier HM tune called
(I copied this phrase VERBATIM from an article in a webpage
about the song as a whole title) “Mr. Bull # 5″.
The earliest American single was indeed the magnificent Hugh Masekela,
released in May of 1968 and it did hit # 1 on Billboard.
BONUS: COWBELLS!!!!
THEN a different group, called ” The Friends of Distinction”
recorded a vocal cover version of the tune in 1969 which was also a “Top Ten” pop and R&B hit, reaching #3 on the former and #5 on the latter.
***The group’s Harry Elston penned lyrics for the song and sang lead on it. ***
F.O.D. members: “. Founded by Harry Elston and Floyd Butler, The Friends of Distinction also included Jessica Cleaves and Barbara Jean Love (plus Charlene Gibson, who replaced B.J. L. during her pregnancy)
per
http://www.ask.com/wiki/The_Friends_of_Distinction?qsrc=3044
“Grazing in the Grass” has been recorded by many other musicians, including Stevie Wonder, Chet Atkins
and here’s HP’s blinged-out mouse
(and I think HP is a male of the hominid species, so I went all “guy” on the bling)
http://i01.i.aliimg.com/photo/v0/202005499/bling_computer_mouse.jpg
Thanks, Fird. I am indeed XY-chromosomed (but I try not to make a “big thing” of it), so I appreciate the understated elegance of the blinged-out mouse. It reminds me a bit of a Damien Hirst mouse, except with a computer mouse.
It’s by purest coincidence that about a year ago I was wondering, “Hey, what was that one tune by that one guy?,” which led me on a all-nite, google-fueled search for information on Masekela and Grazin’. So I had the information to hand.
“Grazin’ in the Grass”? It’s a gas. I can dig it.
Ooh Firdie beat me to the Friends of Distinction “Grazin’ in the Grass” ref. one of my all time favorite songs. It’s part of my face playlist.
Fave playlist. FAVE.
*giggles in sympathy/ empathy*
*giggling intermittently*
(This makes sense if you realize it was supposed to be below FB’s “accurate descriptions” comment 17 miles above.)
I was at the Bronx Zoo with my son this weekend and did not see this little dewd. Looks like we’re headed back, good thing I got a membership!
Aww, lookit ‘im run! And also: a cute animal video in which the filmers didn’t feel the need to ruin it with needless background music? AWESOME.
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
Theresa will LOVE this link. It will simplify her To-Do List …
This worked out really well.
New giraffe, grazin’ in the grass.
The thing that I love about watching giraffes, especially baby giraffes, is that they look so unreal. They remind me of these things from The Dark Crystal:
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060525205739/muppet/images/e/e7/Landstriders.jpg
(And yes, I’m sure that the Henson Company used giraffes as an inspiration for the landstriders. WHICH TOTALLY PROVES MY POINT!)
…Apparently I wasn’t the only one!
I had previously wanted to go to New York mainly for shoes, arts and to laugh at what Irish pubs serve when you order a shepherd’s pie, but this is yet another great reason
Watching the sweet li’l giraffelette gallop and bob and chase and all just makes me smile.
I am particularly enjoying the term “giraffelette”.
It goes with her female girly elegance, Shari
baringo? Is that one of them there New York coffee house fellers what makes fancy-pants decorations in the foam of your eight-dollar light-dark-half-fat-skim-soy frap mocha?
Or is that how you pronounce ‘beringed’ in New Yorkese [where I was told my proudly Canadian accent is 'prissy'!]?
Or do you want “barista”???
Don’t mind them thar New Yarkers. They be jist a mite focussed on gettin’ “r dun’ ….
I am sure your Canadian acksent is loverly!
I thought Baringo was what that Sheldon feller says.
It looks like something out of the CO glossary, right before “baroo.”
Sigh. One of the most graceful things I shall ever see is a giraffe running. Seriously graceful. Except the part where she sticks her tongue up her own nostril, of course.
very well stated, earlybird1
Well, ya know, it’s kinda hard to carry tissues when you don’t have pockets!
How can it be, no one commented on the knobblyness of those knees?!? Knobbly knees to th nth degree!
Love the mining for gold at :19 and the mommy kiss at :33 but yes, the knobbularity of the knees must not be overlooked!
So… when she started to run… was anyone else reminded of the Landstriders from The Dark Crystal?
It’s one of the exact reasons I love watching giraffes run.
Just beautiful. Is there anything else to say?
I was worried the beebee would have to learn about the electric fence the hard way, but Mama moved right in to explain and nudge beebee away.
extraordinary neckage . . . . and antennae x2.
WOAH it picked its nose with its tunge like five times!!!!!!!!! xD