How Much Does It Cost To Buy A Giraffe
How much does a giraffe cost?
Tying in with this year'south 65th anniversary of the arrival of the first giraffe in Prague Zoo, I posted a small note on social networks as a reminder. The text of the note was originally published in National Policy in 1937. That means it was written seventeen years before the Masai Giraffe named Lenka ended her long journeying from Republic of kenya with her arrival at the railway station in Bubny in 1954 - non only was she the first giraffe in our zoo, she was likewise the first giraffe in Czechoslovakia. The writer, signed with the goose egg -ok- in that eventful twelvemonth 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 run across its inflow immediately. "Giraffes are very expensive," he noted, "and structure (of the enclosure) would be expensive". As nosotros 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, yet, I mainly provoked the question of how much a giraffe cost and then and how much it costs today. It is not like shooting fish in a barrel to respond, but let's have a go.
Searching through the newspapers of the time gave me an inkling of giraffe prices in the 1930s. Very loftier. But the hippo and the rhino were more expensive than the giraffe. In 1937, a giraffe "unaccustomed to the European climate" cost 120,000 crowns and a giraffe "raised in Europe" was as much as 220,000 crowns. At the same time, an Indian elephant cost sixty,000 crowns. I other comparison: a pint of beer price one crown, fifty hellars at the fourth dimension.
Today'south giraffe prices are completely different. They proceed to be traded in some places (for example, in South Africa they cost between eleven and 14 m Rands, or tens of thousands of crowns), simply the serious zoos no longer assign them a monetary value. Incidentally, this applies to near all animal species that are kept in facilities associated in the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums (EAZA). Formally, these animals do have owners, but 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 issues its recommendations so that it is in the all-time interests of the entire population bred by EAZA members.
But even if nosotros ignore this fact, for a long time giraffe breeding has been so successful in European zoos that they are rather abundant. Thus, dissimilar in the distant past, the toll of a giraffe is not a major issue. In dissimilarity, it is infinitely more demanding (and expensive) to create suitable conditions for them. It is no longer enough to simply accept an enclosure and cramped winter stabling, as it once was. In Cardinal European conditions, information technology is necessary to build a breeding facility costing tens of millions of crowns and then operate it. Thus, for example, the cost of importing high-quality alfalfa from France is a marginal item in the total almanac upkeep for giraffe convenance. Times have changed 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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