Mystery giraffes seen roaming Coahuila countryside

For the 2nd clip successful the past 4 months, giraffes person been spotted roaming freely successful Mexico’s bluish authorities of Coahuila, leaving authorities and residents perplexed.

The latest sighting occurred this week successful the municipality of Hidalgo. Unfortunately, determination doesn’t look to beryllium immoderate video, but this station from aboriginal December of giraffes romping done a semi-desert country successful the municipality of Sabinas has garnered thousands of online views.

The sighting was reported successful the Carbonífera Region — an expansive country chiefly successful Coahuila that produces implicit 90% of Mexico’s ember — by members of the Coahuila State Police, who were connected regular patrol connected agrarian roads astatine the time.

Around the aforesaid time, 3 giraffes were besides seen adjacent Coahuila’s borderline with Nuevo León.

The sightings person raised questions astir the regularisation of exotic fauna successful the region. Authorities are moving to find if idiosyncratic has ineligible permits to support the giraffes oregon if they are portion of an amerciable trafficking operation.

The Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (Profepa) has been notified to measure the wellness of the animals and determine connected further actions.

Some speculate that the giraffes mightiness person originated from a ranch belonging to the precocious businessman Chito Longoria, whose property spanned crossed 3 Mexican states, including Coahuila. Shortly aft helium died successful 2015, his daughter, Janette Longoria, said successful an interrogation that their ranch had giraffes, antelopes and zebras.

However, this mentation remains unconfirmed.

Some mightiness wonderment if 1 of the giraffes connected the escaped is the 1 that was reported missing from Culiacán Zoo successful December.

However, that would beryllium impossible, and not conscionable due to the fact that the giraffe would person had to locomotion implicit 1,000 kilometers northbound from the zoo. The astir apt scenario, enactment distant by consequent reports, is that the missing giraffe died successful the zoo owed to earthy causes 2 months earlier.

The astir caller representation of 3 giraffes roaming agrarian Coahuila. (@noticiasmiled/X)

Another “tall” communicative covered by Mexico News Daily past year elaborate the saga of Benito, a 4.3-meter (14-foot) gangly giraffe who was surviving successful deplorable conditions astatine a nationalist parkland successful Chihuahua earlier being transferred to a spacious safari parkland successful Puebla.

Benito’s concern was adjacent addressed by past president Andrés Manuel López Obrador successful 1 of his regular mañaneras. 

Coahuila authorities are urging the nationalist to study immoderate further sightings of exotic taxon to assistance combat wildlife trafficking and support some the animals and the section ecosystem.

The beingness of giraffes successful Coahuila’s arid lands has raised concerns astir their wellness and survival.

With reports from La Voz, N+, GM Noticias, Posta, El Coahuilense and MX Vanguard