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Giraffe Death
Old 09-06-2008

Sad news...

Giraffe dies suddenly at Auckland Zoo (+photo) - 08 Jun 2008 - NZ Herald: New Zealand National news

Sounds like she fell for some reason. She was their main breeding female. From a future breeding persepctive - lucky she had a daughter.

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What a shame ..... but at least she has had success in birthing offspring , and was a fairly old giraffe .
It is only in the last 20 years that Auckland has had any success with giraffe breeding -- they almost went the way of the bears ( phased out indefinately )
 


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