April the giraffe's baby not relocating to North Carolina
It turns out that North Carolina won't be getting that celebrity animal baby after all.
Tajiri, the famous offspring of April the giraffe, whose pregnancy and birth in 2017 resulted in millions of views across the globe as viewers followed her efforts to produce an offspring, will apparently not be relocating to the Carolina Wildlife Conservation Park.
According to Animal Adventure Park, which was going to transfer Tajiri to the Tar Heel State, the move is not happening.
"Animal Adventure Park must announce that it has unexpectedly canceled the transfer of Tajiri the Giraffe," according to a Facebook post the group made on Saturday that is pinned at the top of their social media page.
The organization does not say why the transfer has been halted, but added that, "Requirements and deadlines were not satisfied in the given time frame to make the scheduled transfer by the end of this month possible."
"The safety, security and welfare of our animals remains priority number one, and we feel it is best at this time, to keep Tajiri in place, at home, at Animal Adventure Park," the group's post says.
In early September, the Carolina Wildlife Conservation Park, a nonprofit agency devoted to preserving and propagating endangered African species, had been scheduled to announce the exact location of where it would house Tajiri.
A page on the group's website devoted to Tajiri is now returning a page not found error. And there is no information about Tajiri on the site's Blog and News section.
More than 1 million people tuned into a Saturday morning livestream on April 15, 2017, as April went into labor before ultimately giving birth to her baby giraffe, which is now just shy of 2 years old.
The Animal Adventure Park in Hapursville, N.Y. struck up a partnership with ToysRUs, before it shuttered its stores, in order to stream the birth via YouTube. Several news websites then picked up the livestream, which garnered over 10 million views when all was said and done.
