All Posts Tagged With: "giraffes"
Love giraffes this Valentines day
Despite the recent freezing weather and heavy snow, the animals in the zoo can still provide that warm fuzzy feeling, particularly if you or your loved one has a soft spot for giraffes.
By adopting an animal in the zoo before Valentines Day, you can enter yourself and your partner in with the chance to feed [...]
Autopsy links giraffe death at B.C. zoo to cold, bad diet
Canwest News Service
An animal autopsy indicated that lack of warmth and inappropriate diet likely killed one of two giraffes that died recently at Langley’s Mountain View Conservation Centre, says the facility’s veterinarian.
Two Masai giraffes, a six-week old and a young adult, died at the rare-species zoo within days of each other during an early December [...]
Zoo names baby giraffe Monday
Langley Advance
To mark the third-month birthday of a new baby giraffe born at the Greater Vancouver Zoo, the animal keepers are holding a unique party on Monday.
They’re having a little celebration, where they will reveal the new name of the latest female addition to the Rothschild’s giraffe family, said zoo marketing manager Jody Henderson.
The public [...]
Second giraffe dies at Tulsa Zoo
By SHANNON MUCHMORE – Tulsa World
A female giraffe at the Tulsa Zoo died early Sunday, probably from hypothermia, officials said.
Amira, a 9-year-old giraffe who came to the zoo from California in October, is the second giraffe to die at Tulsa Zoo in as many months. Amali, a 5-year-old, died Dec. 3 after injuring her neck [...]
Twycross Zoo keepers start annual animal stock take
Leicester Mercury
From the ant to the elephant, staff at Twycross Zoo have begun the mammoth job of counting their animals.
Along with zoos up and down the country, workers at the Leicestershire attraction are beginning their annual stock take.
New arrivals at Twycross in 2009 included elephant Ganesh Vijay, woolly monkey Branco, tufted deer Ying [...]
Jacksonville Zoo Protects Animals In Cold Weather
Ryan Duffy Ann Butler – First Coast News
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Giant River Otters were using space heaters, and the giraffes were under their own really high heaters.
The Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens was open to visitors, but almost all the animals were taking the day off to stay inside.
“Some of the animals, like [...]
It’s a girl! Giraffe gives birth at Calgary Zoo
METRO CALGARY
The Calgary Zoo got an early Christmas present with the delivery of a new baby giraffe.
The new calf, born to mom Mardi and dad Tenga, came into the world Dec. 5, weighing 130 lbs at a height of 5-10.
“She is a beautiful new addition to our giraffe family,” said zookeeper Mona Keith.
“Both mom and [...]
Elelphants are grey areas in Toronto Zoo’s future
By BRYN WEESE, SUN MEDIA
Pandas or pachyderms?
That should be the question for the Toronto Zoo Board, according to one of its outspoken members.
For animal rights activists, though, it should be neither.
Councillor Paul Ainslie says given the recent deaths of two elephants at the zoo in the last six months, attention to the herd — [...]
Tulsa Zoo Says X-Ray Next Step For Injured Giraffe
NewsOn6.com
TULSA, OK — The giraffe at the Tulsa Zoo with a neck injury appears to be interacting normally with the other giraffes in her exhibit.
As reported on NewsOn6.com last month, Amali was one of two giraffes shipped to the Tulsa Zoo earlier this year. But Zoo officials say Amali suffered a neck injury during [...]
Giraffe arrives at Tulsa Zoo with injured neck
By SARA PLUMMER – Tulsa World
The newest female giraffe at the Tulsa Zoo injured herself while being transported from Ohio to Oklahoma and now has a noticeable crick in her neck that may be permanent, zoo officials said.
Despite her injury Amali, the 5-year-old giraffe from the Wilds zoo near Cumberland, Ohio, is stable and has [...]



