The Tulsa Zoo is adding two giraffes after a giraffe died from hypothermia last year.

Another giraffe died after suffering a broken neck in transport to the zoo.

Since then, new management has taken over the site.

Now, a 4-year-old giraffe named Lexi is on her way from the Dickerson Park Zoo in Springfield,

Missouri.

The other giraffe is a 2-year-old named Pili.

She will be transported from the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas.

Both females will join Samburu, the Tulsa Zoo’s male giraffe.

The two giraffes will be transported separately by the Dickerson Park Zoo, which

has a trailer specifically designed for giraffe transport.

The Tulsa Zoo’s staff veterinarian, Dr. Kay Backues, will also accompany

the transports of both animals.

The new giraffes will have a quarantine period that is standard for all new

animals.

Zoo workers are hoping Samburu will eventually breed with the two new females, who

sexually mature at age four.

The two new females are not the only new additions in the giraffe exhibit.

The giraffe barn has been fully renovated and the new Mary K. Chapman Giraffe

Experience has been completed.