Benito the giraffe arrived in Mexico's arid northern border city of Ciudad Juarez just last month, and already the climate appears to be a problem — and he's only had to deal with the scorching heat of summer.
The snow and freezing temperatures of winter are still to come, and animal activists are up in arms and pushing a campaign under the hashtag"Save Benito" seeking to have the animal moved somewhere more hospitable.
People are also reading… "We have been fighting for a month, a group of animal activists, to demand that he be taken to an animal sanctuary, a zoo, somewhere where there are appropriate facilities and qualified personnel to care for this type of animal," said Ana Félix, a Ciudad Juarez animal rights activist."We are in the desert here and the climate here is extreme in winter and in summer.
He added that the giraffe would have 320 acres to roam in."He doesn't have any trees to browse from" at the park in Mexico, Lieberman said."He needs trees to eat from and keep stimulated." Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS Feed | Omny Studio | All Of Our Podcasts Park director Rogelio Muñoz said authorities are planning to build Benito a new, heated winter house by September.
Benito was donated by a zoo in the much more temperate climate of Sinaloa, a state on Mexico's northern Pacific coast. Benito couldn't stay with two other giraffes at the Sinaloa zoo because they were a couple, and the male could become territorial and attack the younger Benito.
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