There is a $5,000 reward offered for information leading to the capture of an escaped giraffe in Texas. Gracie is a 3- to 4-year-old reticulated giraffe who went missing from Cedar Hollow Ranch, an exotic animal facility in Real County, Texas. Gracie is described as 10 to 11 feet tall with a case of wanderlust. She managed to escape from an area of the ranch that had an eight-foot gate and a rock slab barrier, although no damage to the gate was reported. A search by helicopter covered a 7,500-acre area, but no sign of the giraffe was found.
Ranch manager Vick Jones is not too concerned with Gracie's wellbeing while on the lam. The surrounding area offers plenty of vegetation a giraffe could eat, and she is unlikely to be bothered by native wildlife. One would imagine that native wildlife would be terrified by an 11-foot animal. The question that remains is how she managed to remain free for this long. Read about the case of the escaped giraffe at Smithsonian.
Update: Gracie was found and recovered today.
(Image credit: Real County Sheriff's Office)
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