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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

Mystery of Gracie the giraffe deepens as sheriff calls recapture claims a tall story

a giraffe
Gracie the giraffe was missing for nearly two weeks. Photograph: Real County Animal Rescue-Shelter

For almost two weeks, residents of a rural Texas county have been looking, mostly up, for a missing giraffe called Gracie that wandered off from a private game ranch.

On Wednesday, the mystery of the free-roaming mammal’s odyssey deepened further, when a local sheriff disputed an account that it was reportedly found safe a “little farther out than expected” from its hill country home, and said the search was most definitely still on.

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