Female giraffe Bubbly dies in Hyderabad Zoo

According to reports, Bubbly had sleeplessness and lost appetite for the last one week and was on medication.

Hyderabad: A female giraffe in the Jawaharlal Nehru Zoological Park here on Wednesday. The female giraffe, seven-year-old Bubbly, breathed its last on Wednesday, following some disorder in the lungs.

The animal was found dead by a security personnel who was on an early morning round of the zoo. According to reports, Bubbly had sleeplessness and lost appetite for the last one week and was on medication.

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The Nehru Zoological Park had brought Bubbly, along with a six-year-old male giraffe Sunny, from Alipore Zoological Gardens, Kolkata as part of an exchange programme in March 2019. A month later, after being in quarantine, the newly-acquired pair of giraffes were put in their enclosure for public display.

The Zoo authorities and Forest Department officials haven’t responded to repeated calls and an official confirmation of the death is yet to come.

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