Stuttgart (dpa/lsw) - The Wilhelma in Stuttgart has a new addition to its long-necked residents: the reticulated giraffe Lindani complements the herd in the zoological-botanical garden with the giraffe cows Nyiri and Sala. As the zoo announced on Thursday, Lindani was born in Cologne Zoo in 2012 and has lived with a small break in Duisburg Zoo since 2014. Since he temporarily gave up his giraffe husbandry, the giraffe cow came to Stuttgart.
"Transporting a giraffe is always a certain challenge. Lindani mastered the journey with the special transporter very well," said Wilhelma curator Ulrike Rademacher. According to the information, giraffes have been an endangered species since 2016. There are fewer than 4,700 reticulated giraffes left in their homeland, the border area around Kenya, southern Somalia and possibly Ethiopia. The last reticulated giraffe bull at Wilhelma died in 2021.
