An illustrated giraffe among acacia leaves, the Patterns brand
Citizen science · Kruger National Park

Every giraffe wears a fingerprint.

Photograph a wild giraffe. Patterns reads its coat like a barcode, recognises the exact individual, hands you a gold-foil collectible, and turns your sighting into real conservation data.

~50
giraffes known in Central Kruger
98%
coat-match confidence
1 tap
photo → named individual
The loop

From a single photo to a giraffe with a name & a story.

Hands on

It’s a real app. Go ahead, poke around.

Switch tabs, tap a card to open it, flip it over, hit a reveal. This is the actual interface, rebuilt to play with right here.

Tap the tabs · tap a card · tap “reveal”
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Your safari

My Safari

June 2026 · Central Kruger
Ready to reveal
?
Someone’s waiting…
Spotted Jun 14 · tap to reveal
Reveal this giraffe
Being identified
Being identified…
Jun 14 · submitted
● Analysing
Waiting for signal
Waiting for signal
Jun 14 · queued
◷ Queued
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Fit the giraffe’s neck & shoulder in frame
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A new find
Nº 12First ever
Unnamed
SPOT ID · GIRAFFE-12New
South African giraffe
A new giraffe!
You’re the first to spot this one
94%
Match
Seen
new
Tracked
Name this giraffe ✦
tap the card to flip it
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Your collection

23 giraffes met

23 of ~50 known in Central Kruger
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7/23 collected
Nº 07South African
Thabo
South African giraffe
Thabo
98%
Match
Seen
4y
Tracked
SPOT ID · THABO-07Verified

Thabo

Giraffe facts
SubspeciesSouth African giraffe
ScientificG. c. giraffa
HistoryTracked 4 years
SightingsSeen 6 times
You spotted this on June 14, 2026
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Tracking
Where has she been?
Thabo · 6 sightings
OlderRecent
~14 km roamed
Last seen near Sabie River · Jun 14
Live
A case of cards

Gold foil. Earned, not bought.

Each verified giraffe mints a single collectible: real coat texture, real stats, a holographic sheen. Provisional finds wear a muted frame until rangers confirm them. Tap any card to flip it.

Nº 02South African
Rowan
SPOT ID · ROWAN-02Verified
South African giraffe
Rowan
First seen · May 2026
97%
Match
Seen
3y
Tracked
Named byYou ✦
SPOT ID · ROWAN-02Verified
Nº 07South African
Thabo
SPOT ID · THABO-07Verified
South African giraffe
Thabo
First seen · June 2026
98%
Match
Seen
4y
Tracked
RangeSabie River
SPOT ID · THABO-07Verified
Nº 14Provisional
Kesi
SPOT ID · KESI-14Rangers checking
Awaiting confirmation
Kesi
A ranger will verify this find
71%
Match
Seen
new
Tracked
SPOT ID · KESI-14Provisional
The reveal

Worth the wait.

Your photo doesn’t become a card right away. It waits in “My Safari” while the match is checked, then arrives ready to turn over. That little pause is the point: a small hit of wonder, for kids and grown-ups alike.

Reveals are evening-friendly: gentle, never grindy.
Nº 18South African
Amara
SPOT ID · AMARA-18Verified
South African giraffe
Amara
First seen · April 2026
99%
Match
12×
Seen
5y
Tracked
SPOT ID · AMARA-18Verified
Naming rights

Find it first, name it forever.

Spot a giraffe nobody has logged and you get to name it. It’s a shared name everyone in Patterns will see: first come, first served, locked in on the server so two finders never clash. Or skip it and stay anonymous.

Names are kid-safe and reviewed. No internal labels ever leak.
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Why it matters

Every sighting is a data point for giraffe conservation.

Giraffe numbers have quietly fallen across Africa. Patterns turns families on safari into a distributed census: each photo is a verified individual at a known place and time. Exact GPS stays private (only a rough region is ever shared), and the movements feed straight into conservation partners like SANParks.

Coarse only
locations shared as a region, never the exact spot, to protect the animals
Real stats
no invented heights or herd sizes, only what the data actually shows
Built for Kruger
starting in Central Kruger, designed to scale park by park
Patterns

Turn your next safari into a field guide you build yourself.

Spot a giraffe. Meet the individual. Help the species.

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