FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno Chaffee Zoo announced that Fenny, a male Masai giraffe, died the morning of Aug. 21 after complications arose under anesthesia during a procedure related to an injury.<\/p>\n
The zoo said Fenny had been receiving treatment for a fracture in his left front hoof.<\/p>\n
The Animal Care and Veterinary teams had been treating the injury, including applying a \u201cshoe\u201d to his hoof. During a necessary procedure to evaluate the hoof\u2019s progress, complications occurred while Fenny was under anesthesia, and he died despite efforts by staff.<\/p>\n
CEO and Zoo Director Jon Forrest Dohlin said in a statement:<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a heartbreaking loss for our Zoo. Fenny was a key member of our giraffe herd and has had a meaningful impact on the hearts of both staff and guests alike. My very sincere condolences are with our teams who cared for Fenny every day and to our guests who interacted with him. He will be deeply missed by our entire community.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the zoo, Fenny joined the Fresno Chaffee Zoo giraffe herd in 2019 and served as an educational ambassador for his species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno Chaffee Zoo announced that Fenny, a male Masai giraffe, died the morning of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-439924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}