{"id":32023,"date":"2025-07-02T07:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/32023\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T07:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:37:11","slug":"san-antonio-zoo-welcomes-1-year-old-giraffe-to-its-naylor-savanna-habitat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/32023\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio Zoo welcomes 1-year-old giraffe to its Naylor Savanna Habitat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 The San Antonio Zoo announced the addition of a 1-year-old giraffe on Monday, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Kicheko, who was born on April 1, 2024, at the Dallas Zoo, joins two other giraffes at the Naylor Savanna Habitat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The giraffe\u2019s arrival is also part of the Association of Zoos &amp; Aquariums\u2019 Species Survival Plan, a collaborative effort among zoos to ensure the long-term survival of threatened and endangered species, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The zoo\u2019s goal is to manage the population and conserve the breeding of the species carefully, the release stated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cKicheko\u2019s arrival marks the next chapter in our new giraffe breeding program plans,\u201d said Tim Morrow, president and CEO of San Antonio Zoo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Guests can help support giraffe conservation efforts by purchasing tickets to the Giraffe Feeding Experience or staying at Spekboom Lodge, which offers exclusive zoo access and more animal encounters, both located within the Naylor Savanna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The release said that the zoo also offers Conserfari Tours, which take guests on a ride into the Naylor Savanna Habitat to feed giraffes from the truck.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 The San Antonio Zoo announced the addition of a 1-year-old giraffe on Monday, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,11587,7202,9086,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-32023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ksat-kids","10":"tag-san-antonio","11":"tag-san-antonio-zoo","12":"tag-sanantonio","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}