{"id":597881,"date":"2026-09-12T07:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/597881\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T07:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:06:09","slug":"how-do-you-move-giraffes-180-miles-to-a-new-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/597881\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you move giraffes 180 miles to a new home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cooling said it was a &#8220;straightforward journey&#8221; but a lot of training took place before the operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The animals need to be trained to be safely loaded, they have to willingly want to go into the back of a trailer, to be transported down,&#8221; the expert said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So, when it comes to the day, the majority of their routine is normal for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Twycross Zoo said keepers worked &#8220;extremely hard&#8221; to train animals for veterinary checks and transportation through voluntary positive reinforcement training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson explained animals were offered rewards as part of the training &#8211; usually food-based &#8211; and they always had the chance to walk away and not partake. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They added using the training helped the animals get used to the behaviour, noises, and what to expect on the day of a move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s completely up to them when the time comes to walk into the trailer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It takes a lot of patience and perseverance from the team, but the successful move is a huge sign of their hard work and is very rewarding,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooling said it was a &#8220;straightforward journey&#8221; but a lot of training took place before the operation. &#8220;The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-597881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}