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As you enter the grand foyer of our resort, you will be greeted by a scene of a magnificent oak-paneled living room warmed by a crackling log fire, and populated by a cast of stylishly dressed and very relaxed vacationers.

The other is Grevy''s zebra, named for Jules Grevy, a president of France in the 1880s who received one from Abyssinia as a gift, and now found mostly in northern Kenya. (The third species, Equus zebra, is the mountain zebra, found hotel in southern and southwestern Africa.) The long-legged Grevy''s zebra, the biggest of the wild equids, is reservations and hotel taller and heavier than the Burchell''s, reservations with a massive head hotel and large ears. Zebras reservations have shiny coats that dissipate over 70 percent hotel of incoming heat, and some scientists believe the stripes help the animals withstand intense solar radiation. The black and white stripes are a form of camouflage called disruptive coloration that breaks up the outline of the body. Although the pattern is visible during daytime, at dawn or in the evening reservations when their predators are most active, zebras look hotel indistinct and may confuse some predators by distorting the true distance between them and their prey.

The larger Baringo or Rothschild''s giraffe (G.c. rothschildi) of western Kenya and eastern Uganda has chestnut patches reservations and hotel separated by broader reservations white lines but no spotting below the knees. This species can have up to five horns instead of the usual two or hotel three. The Masai giraffe (G.c. tippelskirchi) reservations of Tanzania and southern Kenya has irregular star-shaped brown or tan spots. Giraffes are found in arid and dry-savanna hotel and reservations zones south of the Sahara, wherever trees occur. Although a relatively quiet animal, the giraffe is not mute. Giraffes bellow, grunt, bray in distress, moan and emit short flutelike hotel notes. They have acute senses of hearing and sight, often alerting other animals to nearby predators. Giraffes use a home range but are not territorial. The males are hierarchical and sometimes spar by standing side by side and reservations lowering and swing their heads at one another. The blows can hotel be so reservations strong that their necks entwine.