Baby giraffe at Greater Vancouver Zoo gets a name
Posted January 18, 2010 3:27 pm.
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ALDERGROVE (NEWS1130) – Say hello to….Bonnie! The baby giraffe at the Greater Vancouver Zoo now has a name, thanks to her mom, who made the selection from three suggestions sent in by the public.
The zoo received over a thousand entries to its “Name the Giraffe” contest, but didn’t make the choice on its own. Instead, three zookeepers each held a single piece of paper with one name on it, and let Eleah, Bonnie’s mom, make the selection, using a bamboo shoot as a pointer.
Bonnie, who was born exactly three months ago, is now 7′ 5″ tall, and weighs approximately 300 pounds!