So sad: baby giraffe dies

This is *awful*, truly awful :-(

Christina Websell...

Thanks for the warning, I won't look. I get terrible nightmares and have to
be really careful about viewing things like this, either on TV or on the
internet as it just makes them worse.
Mention has already been made about a fire. I'll have to try and forget all
about it as I won't sleep otherwise.

helen s

Alison...

Oh poor things. That's tragic. I wonder how the straw bales caught fire.?
Alison

John F. Eldredge...

Probably by spontaneous combustion, which is somewhat of a misnomer.
If organic material has the proper amount of moisture, it can rot at a
speed that generates enough heat for it to catch on fire. Too much
moisture will result in the heat escaping without ever reaching the
ignition temperature; too little moisture will result in it not
rotting in the first place, or at least not fast enough to produce
enough heat. When I was in college, I worked as a security guard at a
textile plant. On a couple of occasions, we had bales of cotton fiber
spontaneously catch fire after getting wet.

Adrian...

_Very_ upsetting. :-(