The Edinburgh Zoo released footage showing the jaw-dropping amount of manpower and attention required to safely anesthetize a giraffe. 🦒❤️ Time lapse video shows the procedure to examine Gilbert, a giraffe that had undiagnosed swelling on his face. The animal-care team can be seen massaging his long legs and using elastic bands to move them - all to ensure adequate blood flow during the procedure. | ABC7

Watch our new Heritage Minute on Anne Innis Dagg, a pioneering researcher who studied giraffes in the wild! One of the foremost experts on giraffes, Dr. Anne Innis Dagg was the first Western researcher to study a mammal in the wild in Africa. Dagg fell in love with giraffes as a young girl. By 1956, she had completed her master’s degree from the University of Toronto and decided to study giraffes in South Africa. Dagg initially struggled to find someone to host her given that she was an unmarrie