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Long neck of a load

IT HAS BEEN a busy Christmas for many and after such a turbulent year let us all hope things will improve and settle down. In the period up to Christmas I had a couple of different trips from normal. The first was transporting a giraffe from Dubbo Zoo to the Monarto Safari Park near Murray Bridge, South Australia.

Animals travel between zoos for many reasons, but they too had been stopped from travelling with the virus and its implications, as often with bigger animals, keepers travel with them to help with the travel and transition.

This was not a full-grown

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