As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, there were tons of babies of all species running around Kenya at this time of year. These are reticulated giraffes that we came across at our first camp in the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. Although we saw  quite a few baby giraffes, we didn’t see much interaction like this. In fact, giraffes are notoriously bad mothers, often forgetting that they even have babies and wandering off while the little ones are left to catch up. When born, the babies can already be up to six feet tall.

I returned early this morning from my trip to Kenya. Overall it was a great two weeks, with plenty of outstanding photo opportunities and new species like rhino, serval and gerenuk to photograph. This is the time of the short rains in Kenya so everything was nice and green. And babies were everywhere — like these two bat-eared fox pups. I had tried photographing bat-eared foxes in Botswana but could never get close enough. They are very skittish and usually run before you can get within range for frame filling photos. In Kenya, it was the same, but I kept trying and finally got these month-old pups to let their curiosity get the best of them. I took many photos as they played around the den, but liked this symmetrical portrait best, almost as if they are Siamese twins coming from the same furry body. In a future post I’ll send the mother with the pups so you can see just how small these little guys are.