The Calgary Zoo is showing off a newly acquired female giraffe.
Five-year-old Emara arrived earlier this summer from the San Diego Zoo, but didn’t make her public debut until Friday.
Visitors can now see her in the African Savannah Building, along with the zoo’s male giraffe, Nabo, and females Carrie and Moshi.
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Emara is one of only four Masai giraffes in Canada.
“As a conservation organization, we are dedicated to protecting species here at home and around the world,” curator Dr. Malu Celli said in a news release. “Wild giraffe populations have decreased by 50 per cent, due mostly to habitat loss and poaching in the wild.”
Only nine zoos in Canada are home to giraffes.