These young giraffes were part of a shipment of 255 wild animals transported from their grazing grounds at a Namibian game park to a second home in Kano, Nigeria. They were flown from Windhoek to Kano, Nigeria in an Emirates SkyCargo Boeing 747-400F freighter charter. The special shipment included eland, zebras, kudu, oryx, blue wildebeest, hartebeest, springbok, and impala.