Broken Zoo

[den]

A massive storm ripped through here late Thursday night, but here in Town it was just a big storm and did little damage. But the Zoo has been shredded. There are trees down all over the place and the zoo had to close its gates for 2 days.

The animals are pretty freaked out by it all. I just heard on the news that one of the giraffes, Shari, became so frightened she charged out of the pen and tripped over a fallen tree. She was so badly injured the vets had to euthanase her.

Everyone in the zoo is pretty upset. Shari was one of the friendly ones who could be hand fed by visitors.

Comments

[tatterdemalion.livejournal.com]

oh dear, we never heard anything about that at all on the news 8-(

[rosefox]

Oh, how sad. *( Between this and pernishus writing eloquent elegies for Halifax, I would like it very much if big storms stayed out over the ocean and bothered the fish for a while. We here on land have had our fill.

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

Aw, damn, that sucks. Poor giraffe.

[trede.livejournal.com]

Erf. My brother was in Dubbo on some biology excursion... he told me about that...

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

:(!!! Darn! That's the end! Poor Giraffe!:(!

I remember feeding special crackers that resembled zweiback to giraffes in zoos as a child. I always though it funny and really neat that they had a long purple tongue they could wrap *around* something. We can't get our tongues around anything, let alone up a tree:D.

[bookofnights.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear that :(

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Poor Giraffe. :(