This is a male, as you can see from his bald horns, which have had the skin worn away in conflicts with other males.

Sometimes you're just too tall.

Giraffes (and other large mammals) are often attended to by oxpeckers, birds that eat ticks and other pests from the skin of their hosts. It's beneficial for everyone (except the ticks).

Closeup with the oxpeckers.

We saw this guy on our bush walk. We got close enough to see a strange growth on his face.

He had quite a beautiful whitish collar.

This young giraffe demonstrates the famous long tongue that enables them to delicately eat leaves from thorny treetops.