How Much Money Does A Giraffe Cost
How much does a giraffe toll?
Tying in with this year's 65thursday anniversary of the arrival of the first giraffe in Prague Zoo, I posted a pocket-sized note on social networks equally a reminder. The text of the note was originally published in National Policy in 1937. That ways it was written seventeen years before the Masai Giraffe named Lenka concluded her long journey from Kenya with her inflow at the railway station in Bubny in 1954 - not just was she the starting time giraffe in our zoo, she was too the first giraffe in Czechoslovakia. The author, signed with the cipher -ok- in that eventful year of 1937, complained that, although negotiations on the purchase of the giraffe had already taken place in the autumn of the previous year, Prague would not see its arrival immediately. "Giraffes are very expensive," he noted, "and construction (of the enclosure) would be expensive". As we now know, he was spot on.
Photo: Khalil Baalbaki
With that notice, I wanted to illustrate how complicated it was to build our zoo. Despite my original intention, however, I mainly provoked the question of how much a giraffe toll and then and how much it costs today. It is non easy to reply, only allow'south have a get.
Searching through the newspapers of the time gave me an inkling of giraffe prices in the 1930s. Very high. Just the hippo and the rhino were more expensive than the giraffe. In 1937, a giraffe "unaccustomed to the European climate" price 120,000 crowns and a giraffe "raised in Europe" was as much equally 220,000 crowns. At the same time, an Indian elephant cost sixty,000 crowns. I other comparison: a pint of beer cost one crown, fifty hellars at the time.
Today's giraffe prices are completely different. They continue to be traded in some places (for case, in South Africa they cost between 11 and 14 thousand Rands, or tens of thousands of crowns), only the serious zoos no longer assign them a budgetary value. Incidentally, this applies to nigh all animal species that are kept in facilities associated in the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums (EAZA). Formally, these animals practise have owners, just their movement between zoos is free of charge. For many species - including giraffes – it is done on the recommendation of the relevant European coordinator. The coordinator bug its recommendations so that information technology is in the best interests of the entire population bred by EAZA members.
But fifty-fifty if nosotros ignore this fact, for a long time giraffe convenance has been and so successful in European zoos that they are rather arable. Thus, different in the afar past, the price of a giraffe is not a major outcome. In contrast, it is infinitely more demanding (and expensive) to create suitable weather for them. It is no longer enough to only have an enclosure and cramped winter stabling, as it once was. In Central European conditions, it is necessary to build a breeding facility costing tens of millions of crowns and so operate it. Thus, for example, the cost of importing high-quality alfalfa from French republic is a marginal particular in the full annual upkeep for giraffe breeding. Times have inverse a lot.
Source: https://www.zoopraha.cz/en/about-zoo/news/director-s-view/12088-how-much-does-a-giraffe-cost
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