Coronavirus Crisis: Towering Lessons from the Giraffe and a Crossover of Care and Caution

A giraffe of the Tsavo cautiously crossing the road. The irony of the tallest neck which is still too short to reach the ground without squatting awkwardly to drink water is symbolic of the paradoxes of nature’s endowments.

Towering at about six metres tall, able to run at nearly 60km/h, having good eyesight capable of discriminating colours, sleeping in short naps confined to five minutes up to a total of only 30 minutes in a day — sparing some 20 hours daily for eating on the go, naturally found only in Africa but boasting a long neck which, ironically…