The case in summary: The animal park in Kristiansand gets a new giraffe from Denmark. He is 3.5 meters tall and comes from the zoo in Aalborg. The giraffe is transported in a specially adapted trailer, and travels according to the biologist and zookeeper from the Zoo. He will become part of Dyreparken’s giraffe population, which consists of one mother and one daughter. The giraffe needs a name, and Dyreparken will find that out when they get to know him better. The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAi. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publication. The animal park in Kristiansand has now secured a giraffe from Denmark. The two-year-old traveled by ferry from Hirtshals. – It has been calm during transport, but he has never traveled on a trailer before so it is probably a bit scary, says biologist Helene Axelsen from Superspeed. The giraffe is 3.5 meters tall and comes from the zoo in Aalborg. It will become part of Dyreparken’s giraffe population, which consists of one mother and one daughter. Here is a picture of when the tiny giraffe calf was born. Now he will start a family in Sørlandet. Photo: Aalborg Zoo Set sea legs The giraffe and the large trailer, which measures 4 meters in height and over 3 meters in length, drove onto the ferry as the very last car. The giraffe is transported in a specially adapted trailer, and travels according to the biologist and zookeeper from the Zoo. – The trailer is heated so it doesn’t feel the cold and is fine, says Axelsen. It is not so easy to transport a giraffe, and according to the people at the zoo, it took a little more time to get the giraffe onto the ferry. – It is difficult to calculate how long something like this will take, and this time it took a bit longer than we had planned for, says director of marketing and communications at Dyreparken Anniken Bjørnstad Schjøtt. In addition to this, there were some delays in customs, and all of this led to a few nerve-wracking minutes where the zookeepers feared that they would not make it to the ferry departure. The giraffe was not quite ready to leave Denmark and it took a long time before he entered the trailer. But then the trailer rolled through customs. Photo: Dyreparken Hoping for sweet music According to the plan, the young fellow will become a breeding animal, when he is ready for it. But first he will have time to settle in and get to know his new pack. From before, Dyreparken has two giraffes, Mindy and Sjira, both whores. It is only at the age of four or five that the male becomes sexually mature. The giraffe is of the Rothschild giraffe subspecies. It is part of a conservation program for the species. Perhaps the zoo will also be sent a giraffe lover from time to time. The giraffe will be introduced to the others, but with a barrier. That way they can get to know each other first. Gradually the barrier will open. Need a name The animal park states that the young giraffe can be as much as 5.7 meters long when he is fully grown. Now he needs a name that rings. Dyreparken will find out when they get him and get to know him better. And, we have to wait a bit before we get to see him, because at the very beginning he has to be shielded. Gradually, people can come and see him in the giraffe stable, and on the savannah when the weather gets warm enough.
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