It's not whether
animals will survive
it's whether man has
the will to save them.
...Anthony D. Williams
Seen at the Sacramento Zoo, this is a Reticulated giraffe. They are so beautiful and graceful. A full grown giraffe can eat 35 pounds of leaves each day and drink 10 gallons of water at a time. They have a black tongue that is 27 inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe is our youngest grandson’s favorite wild animal.
The four major fundraisers for the zoo were all cancelled this year. It costs $500,000 a month to run the zoo. A baby giraffe was born on September 20th and someone paid/donated $10,000 to name the giraffe. The name has not been released yet.
We used to participate in the Zoo Zoom on Halloween and then went into the Zoo to see the special holiday treats they were playing with...t-shirts for orangutans, boxes for chimps, lamb fat covered pumpkins for the white tiger, and pumpkins in the pool for the hippo...those are a few I remember.
