Santa Barbara Zoo Mourns ‘Unexpected’ Death of Audrey the Giraffe

Santa Barbara Zoo Mourns ‘Unexpected’ Death of Audrey the Giraffe

Audrey, the Santa Barbara Zoo’s elderly female Masai giraffe, died unexpectedly overnight, the zoo announced on Monday. “She had appeared to be in good health up until yesterday, when she was presenting vague symptoms of not being quite right and her keepers were monitoring her closely,” said Jennifer Zacharias, the zoo’s spokesperson. Though her death was “unexpected,” Zacharias said, “Audrey was considered a geriatric giraffe” at her age of 16…