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Two Cute Giraffes

  • October 5, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Twin reticulated giraffes born on May 2013 at Texas’s Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch are only the second set of living twins born in the United States. Wasswa was 4.5 feet tall, and her brother Nakato was 5.5 feet. “Reticulated” describes the boxlike pattern on their coats.

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