TITLE

Requiem for Freddie

PUB. DATE

January 1994

SOURCE

Alberta Report / Newsmagazine;1/10/94, Vol. 21 Issue 4, p37

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

States Freddie the giraffe, former inmate and major attraction of the Alberta Wildlife Park, died last week of an apparent heart attack at his new home in Clive, northeast of Red Deer. Freddie was moved to his last home in March.

ACCESSION #

9401257548

Tags: GIRAFFE

 

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