[ti:Activists Want Giraffe to be Moved from Small Mexico Zoo]
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[00:00.00]Benito the giraffe arrived in Mexico's dry northern border city
[00:06.80]of Ciudad Juarez last month.
[00:10.36]Already, the climate appears to be a problem.
[00:15.32]The creature has to deal with the heat of summer.
[00:19.52]And the snow and very cold temperatures of winter are still to come.
[00:25.88]As a result, some animal activists
[00:29.60]are leading a social media campaign to "Save Benito."
[00:34.84]They seek to have the animal moved somewhere easier to live.
[00:40.72]On a recent day, the 3-year-old male giraffe
[00:45.12]could be seen with only its head under a small, circular area for shade.
[00:51.32]The structure did little to protect him
[00:54.72]from a storm that came later in the day.
[00:59.08]There is also a small building for the winter.
[01:02.84]But activists say it is cruel for the city-run Central Park
[01:09.04]to keep the giraffe in a small area, by himself,
[01:13.60]in a climate he is not used to.
[01:16.96]Ana Félix said, "We have been fighting for a month,
[01:21.64]a group of animal activists,
[01:24.24]to demand that he be taken to an animal sanctuary, a zoo, ..."
[01:30.20]The Ciudad Juarez animal rights activist
[01:33.88]said Benito should be housed in the right space
[01:37.84]with people who know how to care for such animals.
[01:42.88]Blue Hills, a sanctuary in Texas that rescues animals
[01:48.12]and books private tours to help offset the cost,
[01:52.28]has offered to buy or adopt Benito.
[01:56.48]"We can offer him a ... new heated barn,
[02:00.04]so in the winter he doesn't stand in the snow and freeze,"
[02:04.60]sanctuary worker Matt Lieberman wrote to The Associated Press.
[02:10.08]"We have an on-staff vet that cares for our animals
[02:14.92]and we have 24-hour staff for him."
[02:18.92]He added that the giraffe would have 130 hectares to move around in.
[02:25.08]Lieberman said, "He needs trees to eat from and keep stimulated."
[02:31.68]Benito appears to have just about finished off
[02:35.72]the only small trees within his reach at Central Park
[02:40.28]and can do little more than walk in circles.
[02:44.32]Officials at the park reject the criticism,
[02:48.36]though they admit they cannot provide more trees.
[02:52.64]They say they are working to improve Benito's living area,
[02:57.36]saying his presence has been important
[03:00.36]in increasing the park's popularity among visitors, largely children.
[03:07.04]Monthly visits rose from about 140,000
[03:11.44]before Benito arrived to 200,000.
[03:16.56]Park visitor Derek Reyes, 11, had mixed feelings about Benito.
[03:23.04]"He could be fine here," Reyes said,
[03:26.72]"but it would also be good
[03:28.52]if they could take him to a place where they belong, with a herd."
[03:33.32]Park director Rogelio Muñoz
[03:36.56]said officials are planning to build Benito a new,
[03:40.68]heated winter house by September.
[03:43.92]The park is also building a larger sun covering for the giraffe
[03:49.04]and cleaning water in the pool that takes up much of the enclosure.
[03:55.00]Benito will have fresh water
[03:57.68]in a special drinking container known as a trough.
[04:02.92]"The conditions, attention and care
[04:06.40]in the habitat of the park's new resident
[04:09.44]are optimal for his stay," the park wrote in a social media message.
[04:15.08]A zoo in the much milder climate of Sinaloa,
[04:20.00]a state on Mexico's northern Pacific coast,
[04:23.68]gave Benito to Ciudad Juarez's Central Park.
[04:28.20]Benito could not stay with two other giraffes
[04:32.28]at the Sinaloa zoo because they were a couple.
[04:36.32]The male in the couple could become protective
[04:40.16]and attack the younger Benito.
[04:43.64]The giraffe's arrival was a point of pride for Ciudad Juarez,
[04:48.48]a city across from El Paso, Texas.
[04:52.12]El Paso has giraffes at its zoo, the thinking goes,
[04:57.20]so why can't Ciudad Juarez?
[05:00.00]"We want to be like El Paso," Muñoz said.
[05:05.36]I'm John Russell. 更多听力请访问21VOA.COM
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