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Africa in 1926. Known as Hi-Boy and Dot, they both succumbed to 
a kidney infection, one after a year, the other 3 months later. 
There were no more giraffes in the collection until 1937, when the 
Smithsonian Institution-National Geographic Society Expedition to 
the Netherlands East Indies stopped in the Sudan on the way home 
and acquired four young ones, a pair of dark-spotted and a pair of 
light-spotted Nubian giraffes. The dark ones became known as Kitty 
and Bob. Bob died in 1956, but Kitty is still alive in the Zoo. The 
other pair were named Nicky (after a 10-year-old journalist who had 
campaigned for “giraffes for the National Zoo”) and Nageoma, for 
National Geographic Magazine. Nicky died in December 1945, and 
Nageoma in July 1946. 
The breeding record follows: 
Nicky and Nageoma 
March 4, 1945, female, Helen. Named for granddaughter of Dr. Gilbert Gros- 
venor, President, National Geographic Society. Still in Zoo. 
Bob and Kitty 
January 4, 1945, female, stillborn. 
August 22, 1946, female, Twiga. Stillin the Zoo. 
October 2, 1948, male, Bedello (named after Walter Bedell Smith, who was 
the first visitor to see him). Sent to the Zoo in Fort Worth, Tex., April 18, 
1952. 
September 25, 1950, female. Sent to Taronga Park Zoo, Sydney, Australia, 
January 3, 1952. 
December 29, 1952, female, Harriet. Sent to Honolulu Zoo, Hawaii, May 27, 
1953. 
February 23, 1955, female, Amelia. Gestation period 450 days. Sent to Cats- 
kill Game Farm, Catskill, N.Y., October 6, 1955. 
January 12, 1957, male, Doe. Gestation period 454 days. Still in the Zoo. 
Bob and Helen 
February 3, 1951, female. Died February 9, 1951. 
June 17, 1952, male, Harry. Died December 13, 1952. 
Mareh 29, 1954, female, Astrid. Gestation period 450 days. Sent to Catskill 
Game Farm, Catskill, N.Y., July 29, 1954. 
September 16, 1956, male, Thomas. Gestation period 459 days. Died March 
28, 1957. 
Bob and Twiga 
December 22, 1951, male, stillborn. 
April 28, 1954, male, Frank. Gestation period 446 days. Sent to Catskill 
Game Farm, Catskill, N.Y¥., July 29, 1954. 
April 25, 1956, female, Marta. Gestation period 451 days. Sent to Catskill 
Game Farm, Catskill, N.Y., August 20, 1956; now at “Africa U.S.A.” Boca 
Raton, Fla. 
A pair of reticulated giraffes about 3 years old were purchased 
June 21, 1939. The female died April 24, 1942; the male, Rufus, died 
November 13, 1956. They left no offspring. 
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