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.”
Pogo made headlines in September 2018 when she gave birth to Georgetta, who was 150 pounds at birth and over 5 feet tall, zoo spokeswoman Erica Hansen said.