Neck & breakfast: Family’s home a giraffe hotel
| July 22, 2009 | 8:22 AM
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Breakfast is a pretty tall order at this house.
A family in Nairobi, Kenya is living with eight giraffes — and the animals seem to think it’s the perfect spot.
The lumbering giraffes roam a 140-acre estate owned by the Carr-Hartley family. And when meal time comes, they stroll up to the English-style manor house and poke their heads through the windows and doors to eat — right off the dining room table.
Mikey and Tanya Carr-Hartley aren’t exactly sticking their necks out here. The home was already part of a conservation project for giraffes when they bought it in March. But now they have turned it into the world’s only giraffe hotel, The Giraffe Manor.
Guests can feed the animals, and get a better look at them from the second-floor windows. While there are other exotic creatures on the property, the main attractions are the Rothschild giraffes, which are some of the rarest on the planet. Only a few hundred are left in the wild, as most of their natural habitat in western Kenya has been turned into farmland.
Opening the hotel is a dream come true for the Carr-Hartleys, who grew up in Kenya. They always have been fascinated by giraffes, and have longed to save them.
Read more at the London Daily Mail.
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