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poe
04-08-2014, 05:53 PM
So heartbreaking to hear that Kyah, the baby giraffe at the zoo, didn't make it through surgery today.

OKC ZOO SADDENED BY DEATH OF GIRAFFE CALF - 2014 - Oklahoma City Zoo (http://www.okczoo.com/news/m.blog/56/okc-zoo-saddened-by-death-of-giraffe-calf-2014)

kelroy55
04-08-2014, 07:32 PM
That's too bad.

Mel
04-08-2014, 08:36 PM
I feel sad about the little girl. She had some mighty fine medico's there. OSU is the best in Animal Husbandry.

RadicalModerate
04-08-2014, 09:16 PM
If the news coverage of the tragic Blade Runner trial in South Africa hadn't exhausted my emotional reserves, I would feel sorrier than I do about the former giraffe baby that didn't live long enough to share the defective gene. (and I think that even Charles Darwin might agree).

Mel
04-08-2014, 09:54 PM
Blade runner was payback for this.Texas woman convicted in stiletto-heel killing of boyfriend (http://news.yahoo.com/texas-woman-found-guilty-killing-man-stiletto-heeled-201005892.html;_ylt=AwrTcdsDxERTkGsAMpEPxQt.;_ylu= X3oDMTByNzhwY2hkBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMgRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dG lkAw--?.tsrc=appleww)

RadicalModerate
04-08-2014, 10:03 PM
Blade runner was payback for this.Texas woman convicted in stiletto-heel killing of boyfriend (http://news.yahoo.com/texas-woman-found-guilty-killing-man-stiletto-heeled-201005892.html;_ylt=AwrTcdsDxERTkGsAMpEPxQt.;_ylu= X3oDMTByNzhwY2hkBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMgRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dG lkAw--?.tsrc=appleww)

Heard this during the PM drive today. I was shocked. I would have been more shocked, yet (as my emotional reserves were already depleted) I simply thought, "Dang . . . That must have been one angry [b-word, possibly c-word]" and then continued to enjoy fairly light traffic, with some Mozart on the radio, and a clear blue sky with nice clouds. (sorry . . . I forgot about the dead giraffe there for a moment . . . ok . . . I'm heartless)

Mel
04-08-2014, 11:33 PM
Everybody has their focus. :wink:

RadicalModerate
04-08-2014, 11:37 PM
Everybody has their focus. :wink:

And my heart was so broken that there was no room for a dead mutant giraffe.
(is it too late to put in a call to Noah? Or possibly Mel Gibson? What about Steve Irwin? =)

btw: word on the street has it that Kyah translates as Dead Giraffe.
(what was the name of that vaguely harmless Tapir that ripped the arm off that zookeeper a while back?)

I think there is far too much anthropomorphizing of wildlife in the public domain.
It could be blamed on Walt Disney . . . yet that wouldn't be exactly right.

(yup: definitely heartless)

Mel
04-09-2014, 12:32 AM
I am guilty of anthropomorphizing animals. But the way my little ol' lady ferret plays me, I just don't know sometimes.

RadicalModerate
04-09-2014, 12:42 AM
Did I say Mel Gibson? I meant Russell Crowe.

Mel
04-09-2014, 12:44 AM
It's easy to get all the overbearing Aussies mixed up.