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Mexico City zoo welcomes second baby giraffe of 2019
    2020-01-02  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

THE Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City is celebrating its second baby giraffe of last year, already as tall as a full-grown human.

The female giraffe was unveiled last week after a mandatory quarantine period following her Oct. 23 birth. She will be named via a public vote to generate empathy with the little cow, zoo director Juan Carlos Sanchez Olmos said Sunday.

The 96-year-old zoo on the grounds of the capital’s central park has a knack for breeding creatures in captivity: Last year it welcomed 170 baby animals, including six Mexican gray wolves, which are in danger of extinction.

“A new birth of a character as unique, as charismatic as a giraffe becomes emblematic —a flag for conservation, for the prestige of the zoo,” said Sanchez Olmos while four grown giraffes happily munched branches and leaves behind him.

Giraffes are considered “vulnerable” because the species faces significant habitat loss in the 17 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, where they reside.

Unlike the wolves, which will be released into the Sierra de San Pedro Martir National Park in Baja California, the giraffes are expected to spend their lives under observation in a dusty patch of the Chapultepec Zoo.

A team of professionals — including nutritionists, veterinarians and biologists like Sanchez Olmos — takes care of more than 1,000 animals in the zoo, which sits under the flight path of jetliners that roar overhead.

As Sanchez Olmos detailed the zoo’s mission to not just educate and amuse, but also conserve species, caretaker Alejandro Gonzalez offered long branches from a pomegranate tree to four hungry giraffes. The tallest of the pack eagerly yanked the branches from Gonzalez’s hands.

“What did I tell you?” the caretaker said, looking the tall giraffe square in the eyes. “Take it easy, please.”

If Gonzalez had his way, the new addition to the herd of giraffes would be called Sarita. At least, that’s what he calls her.

The long-necked creatures are a favorite fixture at the zoo.

(SD-Agencies)

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