Three giraffes become one in perfectly-timed photo of them drinking from puddle

By Taniya Dutta

cMike Sutherland, 31, took the stunning images of the ‘three headed‘ giraffe in the Sabi Sands Game Reserve, Kruger National Park, South Africa.

The photographer – who has been documenting inspiring images of wildlife for over eight years – said he was intrigued by his own camera trick.

Pic By Mike Sutherland/ Caters News

Mike said: “They had lined up in a row and whilst photographing, I captured this image which depicts one giraffe drinking, the second having just finished drinking and the third finished drinking and beginning to move away.

Mike had been following the long-necked animals which are about five to six metres tall had been for sometime and eventually took the perfectly-timed images when he saw them approaching a puddle.

Pic By Mike Sutherland/ Caters News

He said: “We had been following these three giraffes for some time as they moved through some open grasslands.

“There was heavy rainfall the night before and as they approached a clearing, there was a pool of water and they decided to have a drink.

“The three giraffes bent over, in their clumsy manner, to have a drink.

“The image, to my eyes, looks like a single giraffe with three heads drinking from the puddle.”