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SEATTLE—The Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle has humanely killed a giraffe that had degenerative bone disease.
The zoo says the 13-year-old male named Johari (joh-HAH’-ree) that was euthanized Tuesday had chronic joint problems since it arrived in 1998 from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs.
The average life expectancy of giraffes in the wild is 10 to 15 years. They can live up to 25 years in zoos.
Woodland Park has three remaining giraffes, a male and two females.
