Salt Lake Tribune · Jan 8, 2020
Hogle Zoo’s beloved giraffe Pogo dies unexpectedly
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune file photo) Pogo and her baby, Georgetta, who was born Sept. 17, 2018, at Hogle Zoo. Pogo, along with an unborn male calf, died unexpectedly on Monday, Jan. 6, 2020.Hogle Zoo keepers said Pogo the giraffe first showed symptoms that she was sick on Sunday afternoon, and by Monday she was gone, along with her unborn calf.
She was 17. The unborn male calf was in “perfect condition," but at 48 pounds he was too small to survive, the zoo said in a Facebook post.
It’s unclear why she died, although a necropsy found Pogo’s intestines were “abnormal,” the zoo said, adding, “it’s not clear why it all happened so fast.”