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This is a good explanation... for kids. It's too bad it's a poor example from a scientific perspective. Lamarck and Darwin's observations (early 1800's) were not very rigorous.

In their article, "Winning by a Neck," zoologists Robert Simmons (Uppsala University) and Lue Scheepers (Ministry of Environment, Namibia) agree that the standard account "may be no more than a tall story". According to the competition hypothesis, giraffes use their long necks to advantage during dry seasons, when food is scarce; but, in fact, the opposite is observed in the field. "In the Serengeti," Simmons and Scheepers note, "giraffe spend almost all of the dry season feeding from low Grewia bushes, while only in the wet season do they turn to tall Acacia tortillis trees, when new leaves are ...plentiful ...and no competition is expected. This behavior is contrary to the prediction that giraffe should use their feeding height to advantage at times of food scarcity". Moreover, they report, "females spend over 50% of their time feeding with their necks horizontal [a behavior so common it is used to determine the sex of animals at a distance]" and "both sexes feed faster and most often with their necks bent". These observations, they conclude, suggest "that long necks did not evolve specifically for feeding at higher levels." (from http://www.arn.org/docs/odesign/od181/ls181.htm)

"but if we continue to illustrate our conviction with an indefensible, unsupported, entirely speculative and basically rather silly story, then we are clothing a thing of beauty in rags and we should be ashamed, `for the apparel oft proclaims the man.'" (from "The Tallest Tale" by Stephen Jay Gould, Natural History, May 1996)

eh..

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lol.. I must be psychic...

daughter of Alain Degré and Sylvie Robert, a couple who chose to relinquish their lives in France for the freedom of nature in Southern Africa – was born in the newly independent Namibia. Her parents worked as freelance wildlife photographers and film makers.

Wanna bet all the lions and cheetahs are in fact zoo/refuge animals with trainers. What a joke. You think a 8yr old wander in Africa wouldn't have been eaten by the pretty kitty. People will fall for anything...

Here's a great page with a bunch of clips of Tippi playing with animals: http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/10/girl-from-namibia-who-has-special-bond.html

Gonna show some to my nephew, 12yrs old and he screams like a little girl when he sees a garden snake.

"Since its debut in Venice in 2002, more than a million people have attended Ashes and Snow, an exhibition of more than 50 large-scale photographic artworks, a 60-minute feature film, and two 9-minute film haikus by Gregory Colbert."

"Gregory Colbert's photographic artworks capture extraordinary moments of contact between man and animal.

Gregory Colbert has spent thirteen years patiently filming and photographing elephants, whales, birds, and other animals in such places as India, Burma, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Namibia, Egypt, the island of Dominica, Tonga, and Antarctica. ashes and snow, Colbert's lifelong project, explores the nature of animals in their natural habitat as they interact with human beings. His images attempt to lift the natural and artificial barriers between humans and other species—to re-awaken in us an understanding of our shared animal nature."

ashes and snow.

animal.discovery.com/tvlistings/episode.jsp?episode=1&cpi=66977&gid=0&channel=APL

This is the one that first pops up if you type Africa Final Frontier on Google, but I think the Discovery Channel site is down right now. It does talk about Steve in Namibia on the google search site though.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is the one!

I think it was still apart of the Croc Hunter series, but he was in Africa starting in Namibia and going North. Sorry, I saw it briefly this summer before I went to work.