The last offspring of April the Giraffe is heading to Texas from his birthplace in upstate New York.
Animal Adventure Park, Harpursville, New York, about an hour’s drive from Scranton, announced on its Facebook page that Azizi will be moved to East Texas Zoo & Gator Park in Grand Saline, Texas, by next spring.
More than 300,000 people watched Azizi’s birth live on YouTube last March. April drew more than 232 million views on the site during a seven-week period in 2017 before she bore another calf, Tajiri.
April was retired from the park’s breeding program in June.
The park says 9-foot-tall Azizi and another young male will be the Texas facility’s first giraffes.
Caitlin Heaney West is the content editor for Access NEPA and oversees the Early Access blog in addition to working as a copy editor and staff writer for The Times-Tribune. An award-winning journalist, she is a summa cum laude graduate of Shippensburg University and also earned a master’s degree from Marywood University. Caitlin joined the Times-Shamrock family in 2009 and lives in Scranton. Contact: cwest@timesshamrock.com; 570-348-9100 x5107; or @cheaneywest
