YONGIN, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Jang-soon, the world’s ‘most fertile’ giraffe, celebrated her 35th birthday on Wednesday. The zoo of the Everland amusement park in Yongin, south of Seoul, celebrated her birthday by presenting her with a cake made of carrots, hay, cabbage and sweet potatoes. Born in 1986, Jang-soon turned 100 years old [...]
YONGIN, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – June 21 marks World Giraffe Day. It was first initiated in 2014 by the Giraffe Conservation Foundation with the intention to “raise support, create awareness and shed light on the challenges giraffes face in the wild”. To mark the occasion, a zoo in Yongin, Everland Lost Valley, has arranged [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – On July 9, a giraffe named Elsa was born at the Seoul Zoo. It was a meaningful birth, as it was the first giraffe birth in the eight years since Elsa’s mother Hwanhee was born. Seoul Zoo named the giraffe Elsa after the heroine in Disney’s ‘Frozen’. Elsa’s father [...]