{"id":440836,"date":"2026-08-23T00:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440836\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T00:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:38:09","slug":"fresno-chaffee-zoo-mourns-death-of-masai-giraffe-fenny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440836\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Chaffee Zoo mourns death of Masai giraffe Fenny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Fenny.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Fenny, the Fresno Chaffee Zoo\u2019s male Masai giraffe, died on Friday, Aug. 21, 2026.\" alt=\"Fenny, the Fresno Chaffee Zoo\u2019s male Masai giraffe, died on Friday, Aug. 21, 2026.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Fenny, the Fresno Chaffee Zoo\u2019s male Masai giraffe, died on Friday, Aug. 21, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>            Fresno Chaffee Zoo<\/p>\n<p>Fenny, the Fresno Chaffee Zoo\u2019s male Masai giraffe, has died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a heartbreaking loss to our Zoo\u2019s family,\u201d officials wrote. \u201cFenny was a key member of our giraffe herd and has had a meaningful impact on the hearts of both staff and guests alike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zoo officials said Fenny had been undergoing treatment for a fracture in one of his hooves since May.<\/p>\n<p>The Zoo\u2019s Animal Care and veterinary teams treated the injury, including applying a \u201cshoe\u201d to his hoof.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said complications arose under anesthesia before he died on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Fenny arrived at the Chaffee Zoo in 2019 and served as an educational ambassador for his species.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/218450935\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787445489_809_Anthony Galaviz headshot.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Anthony Galaviz\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/218450935\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Galaviz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Fresno Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Anthony Galaviz writes about breaking news\/sports for The Fresno Bee. He covers the Las Vegas Raiders, high schools, boxing, MMA and junior colleges. He\u2019s been with The Bee since 1997 and attended Fresno City College before graduating from Fresno State with a major in journalism and a minor in criminology.\u00a0<br \/>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/fresnobee.com\/subscribe&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;\" style=\"color: #5169B8; text-transform: none;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Support my work with a digital subscription<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fenny, the Fresno Chaffee Zoo\u2019s male Masai giraffe, died on Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. Fresno Chaffee Zoo Fenny,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-440836","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\/440836","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=440836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}