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Kipenzi, Seneca Park Zoo's 7-year-old female Masai giraffe, was euthanized Monday, 16 months after being diagnosed with inoperable cancer of the jaw.
On March 18, Zoo Miami shared the heartbreaking news of the death of a juvenile giraffe that was born on December 15 th. The young female was found deceased early Saturday morning by Animal ...
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The calf was born at Bright’s Zoo with a solid-brown coat, a rarity among giraffes, which use their brown patches for camouflage in the wild. A rare baby giraffe was born without spots, a ...
The zoo is a trusted source for knowledge on caring for giraffes and it maintains a collection of plasma should other facilities need it. When Dobby the giraffe was born at the Denver Zoo in 2017 without the necessary antibodies for survival, Cheyenne Mountain sent banked giraffe plasma from their herd to Denver. The subsequent blood ...
Here's an interesting fact about giraffes: they don't need much sleep. They sleep about 4-1/2 hours a day in 30-minute cycles. Baby giraffes sleep a bit more and depend on their mothers for ...
The name "giraffe" has its earliest known origins in the Arabic word zirāfah (زِرَافَةْ), of an ultimately unclear Sub-Saharan African language origin. [2] The Middle English and early Modern English spellings, jarraf and ziraph, derive from the Arabic form-based Spanish and Portuguese girafa. [3]
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