{"id":65028,"date":"2025-11-22T08:17:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T08:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/65028\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T08:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T08:17:18","slug":"fresno-chaffee-zoo-giraffe-baba-passes-away-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/65028\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Chaffee Zoo giraffe &#8216;Baba&#8217; passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Fresno Chaffee Zoo announced the death of its beloved giraffe, Baba, who you may have fed lettuce to during visits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The zoo says its Animal Care and Veterinary Teams made the difficult decision to euthanize Baba due to her advancing arthritis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">We&#8217;re told she passed surrounded by her herd and caregivers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The zoo says the 31-year-old reticulated giraffe was one of the oldest in the US, surpassing the average 19-year life span for her species.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Baba is being remembered as a charismatic and quirky giraffe, who we&#8217;re told would often use her charm to get more lettuce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She gave birth to seven calves in the last 30 years at the zoo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Her son remains at the zoo and is their tallest resident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fresno Chaffee Zoo announced the death of its beloved giraffe, Baba, who you may have fed lettuce&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[38984,112,5483,114,113,38983,38985],"class_list":["post-65028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-difficult-decision","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-chaffee-zoo","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-reticulated-giraffe","tag-veterinary-teams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65028","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=65028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}