This giraffe is more heroic than you

I didn’t know giraffes had a sense of heroism, but apparently I was wrong. A giraffe in Amsterdam saved a bunch of its circus pals.

Amsterdam police say 15 camels, two zebras and an undetermined number of llamas and potbellied swine briefly escaped from a traveling Dutch circus after a giraffe kicked a hole in their cage.

Police spokesman Arnout Aben says the animals wandered in a group through a nearby neighborhood for several hours after their 5:30 a.m. breakout.

The animals were back at the circus later Monday after being rounded up by police and circus workers with the assistance of dogs. Aben says neighbors fed some of the animals — which he said was a bad idea — but they were tame and nobody was hurt.

Says Aben: “You have to imagine somebody rubbing his eyes first thing in the morning and saying, ‘Am I seeing things or is that 15 camels walking past?’”

You know, for such an interesting animal, giraffes are pretty nondescript. Where are they in Disney movies? Or advertisements? It’s seriously just Geoffrey the Giraffe out there fighting the good fight for people to remember giraffes and giraffe culture. Call me crazy, but I think giraffes can play a bigger role in pop culture. They have long necks, silly horn things that can hold up a hat…they’re basically ready-made to sell me some sort of fattening dessert or get me hooked on smoking. Someone needs to fight for these giraffes and it may as well be me. Giraffes, remember this favor the next time I get myself stuck in a tree. It happens alarmingly often!

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