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A spotless giraffe was spotted in the wild weeks after one was born at a Tennessee zoo, a conservation organization announced in a news release. A rare spotless giraffe was spotted in the wild mere weeks after one was born at a Tennessee zoo, a conservation organization announced in a press release Monday. The Angolan giraffe was photographed on a private game reserve in central Namibia, according to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation. In July, a spotless giraffe was born at Brights Zoo in Limestone, Tennessee, in what David Bright, the zoo's director, told "Good Morning America" was "definitely a shock." MORE: American caver hoisted to safety after 12 days in Turkish cave Following a naming contest, where the zoo asked the public to name the giraffe, the animal was named Kipekee, which means "unique" in Swahili. Bright said Kipekee is "doing well and growing." "This is our first one without a pattern," said Bright, who has bee...

A box of giraffe feces was seized and destroyed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection after a woman brought it back from a trip to Kenya and planned to make necklaces. A box of giraffe feces was confiscated and destroyed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection after a woman brought it back from a trip to Kenya and planned to make necklaces out of the excrement. The woman obtained the fecal matter when she was on a trip to Kenya and was returning back to the United States on Sept. 29 when she was selected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists for inspection at Minneapolis – Saint Paul International Airport in Minnesota. MORE: Woman caught smuggling almost half a million dollars of cocaine in wheelchair that didn't work “The passenger declared giraffe feces and stated she had obtained the droppings in Kenya and planned to make a necklace ,” CBP said in their statement detailing the incident. “The passenger also stated in the past she had used moose fece...

A Virginia woman tried to bring a bag of giraffe and zebra bones through a Washington, D.C.-area airport last month upon arriving on a flight from Kenya. A Virginia woman was caught with giraffe and zebra bones at a Washington, D.C.-area airport last month after arriving home from a trip to Africa, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials. The bones were discovered in the woman's luggage at Washington Dulles International Airport on Nov. 10, officials said. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said giraffe and zebra bones were found in the baggage of a Virginia woman who arrived at Washington Dulles international Airport from Kenya on Nov. 10, 2022. U.S. Customs and Border Protection The woman initially declared that she had a small Acacia tree twig, though later mentioned the bones after CBP agriculture specialists X-rayed her baggage and "discovered an anomaly," CBP said. The woman reportedly found the bones in Kenya and wanted to keep them as souven...