New Giraffe Signage

The four younger bulls were all born at Auckland Zoo:

Masamba (Zabulu x Kiri)
Jabari (Zabulu x Kay)
Ndale (Zabulu x Kay)
Dume (Zabulu x Kay)

Ndoki is a distant relative, sharing ancestors from Taronga Zoo stock.

@Zoofan15 Do you have the names of their common ancestors?

@Tafin

Their common ancestor is Jan Smuts.

The Auckland bulls descend from Willoughby (born at Taronga Zoo).

Ndoki is the son of Ricky and Tisa.

I’ve copied the full details below from posts I’ve done on ZooChat:

Three of the Taronga founders were:

0.1 Mighty (born 1933 in Tanzania) - purebred Masai Giraffe (G. c. tippelskirchi).

1.0 Jan Smuts (born 1943 at Johannesburg Zoo) - purebred South African (Giraffe G. c. giraffe).

0.1 Clara (born 1950 at the Smithsonian National Zoo) - purebred Nubian Giraffe (G. c. camelopardalis).

Jan Smuts and Mighty bred to produce a female named Betty.

Jan Smuts then bred with his daughter Betty to produce Hazel.

Jan Smuts then bred with his granddaughter Hazel to produce Willoughby.

Wellington Zoo’s breeding pair, Ricky (1987-2007) and Tisa (1990-2017) were also descended from Jan Smuts:

Ricky:

Jan Smuts (M43) x Betty (F48) > Hazel (F53) > Faye (F75) > Ricky (M87)

Jan Smuts (M43) x Clara (F50) > Sydney (F58) > Finnie (M75) > Ricky (M87)

Tisa:

Jan Smuts (M43) x Clara (F50) > Anna (F63) > Tisa (F90)

Jan Smuts (M43) x Clara (F50) > Sydney (F58) > Finnie (M75) > Tisa (F90)

@Zoofan15 Wow that's amazing! Thank you.