The Ambulance Wish Foundation granted Mario, 54, a wish that allowed him an up-close one-on-one session with some giraffes at the Rotterdam Zoo Diergaarde Blijdorp) in the Netherlands. Mario had brain cancer and had worked at the zoo for half of his life. Because Mario is paralyzed, his hospital bed was taken around the zoo …
When you think of a giraffe – do you imagine them roaming the plains and savannahs? Or taking a dip in the water? We know they have to drink water, but do giraffes know how to swim? The baby giraffe in the photo below got trapped in some fast-moving flood waters in Kenya. According to …
This woman looks sane and rational. But, she actually has spent years trying to stretch her neck out so she could look more like a giraffe. We are not kidding. Sydney Smith, 30, had read about the Kayan Lahwi tribes from Burma and Thailand who stretch out the necks of young girls with heavy metal …
In the Memphis Zoo located in Tennessee, a female giraffe was video graphed giving birth to her first very own baby! The successful birth was recorded where Sarabi the giraffe experienced motherhood in front of a live zoo audience for the very first time. Sarabi was 13-years-old back then – her baby was healthy and even …
A couple of men found a giraffe stuck in a barbed wire fence. The wire had gotten bound around the giraffe’s ankle and it was in extreme pain. The men worked to free the giraffe. The animal was writhing in pain and they had to avoid getting kicked! Once the giraffe was free, it doesn’t …