Texas giraffe Gracie still missing nearly two weeks after escape as searchers fail to find her
Searchers using helicopters, drones and game cameras have not found the giraffe, and the ranch owner is offering a $5,000 reward.
- A three-to-four-year-old reticulated giraffe named Gracie is currently on the loose in the rugged Texas Hill Country, eluding an extensive search after escaping her enclosure on June 12.
- The giraffe managed to escape from Cedar Hollow Ranch in Leakey, Texas, a remote area about 100 miles west of San Antonio, when she climbed a rocky hillside terrain that the ranch's other giraffes typically avoid and wandered out on the wrong side of a gate.
- The search effort involves helicopters, drones, and trail cameras, but the vast, heavily wooded private ranches and limestone ledge topography have made it incredibly difficult to track the 10-to-11-foot-tall animal.
- Viral reports claiming Gracie was found safe on Tuesday were debunked as a hoax by Real County Sheriff Nathan Johnson, who strongly criticized social media users for spreading misinformation and confirmed that the giraffe remains entirely at large.
- The ranch manager has offered a $5,000 reward for her safe return, noting that Gracie has uniquely rounded ears due to past frostbite, while local authorities assure residents she poses no danger to the public as she roams the rural brush.
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It is more than three meters tall, it weighs hundreds of kilos and yet seems to have vanished. For almost two weeks in Texas there is nothing but talk of Gracie, a giraffe of private property disappeared from the Cedar Hollow Ranch of Leakey and still nowhere to be found. The animal escaped on June 12 from the structure that hosted it and, despite the researches, continues to escape the attempts of recovery. As they report People and the NBC DFW…
A giraffe named Gracie has disappeared from the Cedar Hollow Ranch private reserve in Texas.
Hill Country giraffe Gracie remains at large as search efforts lag
Gracie, who is about 3 years old, has been missing for nearly two weeks after escaping her enclosure at Cedar Hollow Ranch in the Texas Hill Country, said Vic Jones, who owns the remote property about 100 miles west of San Antonio. “People are not in danger of her because she’s not around people,” Jones said.
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