Pregnant giraffe rescued from swimming pool

While filming TV show Wild at Heart in Africa the crew are surprised to discover a pregnant giraffe trapped in their swimming pool. The crew found the nine-year-old giraffe had broken onto the television series' set and had accidentally fallen in the swimming pool.



The animals on the reserve where the show is filmed are free to roam and the crew try to interfere with their habitat as little as possible. However it appeared that despite being 14 months pregnant the giraffe, called Lucy, had managed to squeeze through a fence around the set. “We are not 100 per cent sure how she fell into the pool," said producer Adam Friedlander. "We think she may have been drinking from it and with her head being too low became disorientated and fell in.”

Actor Stephen Tompkinson said: “It was such a bizarre sight – as soon I walked round the corner all I could see was this great neck sticking out of the pool." The crew first drained the pool with the idea of building steps out of sandbags hoping she would walk up them but abandoned the idea amid concerns the animal would slip and fall over.


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The Fire Brigade was called out to help with the situation, and decided to dig a trench at one end of the pool and tempt the giraffe out with some food. Eventually after three hours Lucy was able to safely climb out of the pool unscathed.