{"id":1242033,"date":"2023-07-08T17:20:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T22:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1242033"},"modified":"2023-07-11T08:58:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T13:58:29","slug":"worlds-oldest-giraffe-dies-in-lufkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1242033","title":{"rendered":"World\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oldest giraffe dies in Lufkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/2023-07-08_171945-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1242034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/2023-07-08_171945-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/2023-07-08_171945-465x350.jpg 465w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/2023-07-08_171945-175x132.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/2023-07-08_171945.jpg 513w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>LUFKIN \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The City of Lufkin has announced that Twiga, who held the record for the oldest giraffe in captivity, died at Ellen Trout Zoo on Friday night. Twiga was 31 years, nine months and 7 days old, a record for giraffes which typically only live for about 25 years, according to our news partner KETK. She was born at the Los Angeles Zoo on Oct. 1st, 1991 and came to the Ellen Trout Zoo in 2008 from the Racine Zoo in Wisconsin. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Twiga helped our other two giraffes, Kellen and Luna, feel comfortable in their new home in Lufkin,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ellen Trout Zoo director Gordon Henley said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153She will be greatly missed.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUFKIN \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The City of Lufkin has announced that Twiga, who held the record for the oldest giraffe in captivity, died at Ellen Trout Zoo on Friday night. Twiga was 31 years, nine months and 7 days old, a record for giraffes which typically only live for about 25 years, according to our news partner &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1242033\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oldest giraffe dies in Lufkin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1242036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/2023-07-08_171945-200x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"World\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oldest giraffe dies in Lufkin","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 00:17:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/2023-07-08_171945-200x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"World\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oldest giraffe dies in Lufkin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1242033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242035,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242033\/revisions\/1242035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1242036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1242033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1242033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1242033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}