LANGLEY (NEWS1130): Questions are being raised about the deaths of two giraffes last month at the Mountain View Conservation Centre in Langley. The Vancouver Humane Society is looking for answers.
Gillian--a three year old giraffe--and a six week old giraffe died within days of each other in early December during a cold snap. Peter Fricker from the Vancouver Humane Society believes we should know by now what killed the animals. "It's been over a month now since they went for necropsies, and what we would like to know what the results of those necropsies showed and what the cause of death of the giraffes was."
The Conservation Centre says so far their investigations have found no obvious cause of death and more tests will be needed to find out. It says it could be weeks before those results are available. The Centre says it's just as curious as everyone else about what killed their giraffes because they want to keep their remaining four giraffes healthy.
The SPCA says it has found problems at the Centre in the past and has issued orders for them to be corrected. The SPCA says its overall investigation into the facility continues.