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“Wild Life” TV drama adaptation cancelled as giraffes die after filming

kawaisou.jpgWild Life is a manga about a veterinarian working to save animals and was planned to have a TV drama on NHK starting in March. However, NHK has now announced that they will be cancelling the TV drama as a giraffe mother and child pair have died soon after they finished filming the child.

The 5 month old child giraffe “Himawari” was separated from the parent giraffes for a period of 3 days for filming, and the parent giraffes started showing symptoms of stress. The child was returned to the parents but the mother giraffe “Ririka” died in a few days. The child soon died after another 6 days.

The story for the episode was supposed to have been about the giraffe Taiyo who was fitted with an artificial leg 6 years ago at the very same zoo in Akita.

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3 Responses to ““Wild Life” TV drama adaptation cancelled as giraffes die after filming”

  1. ishiki Says:
    January 11th, 2008 at 11:59 pm

    how ironic…

  2. Anonymous Says:
    January 12th, 2008 at 1:06 am

    haha cool

    I want to see a Japanese live action where they inject 2 liters of horse sperm into a kitten and then put it throw a buzz saw or something, call it catcake.

  3. Pedr-Al-Aziz Says:
    January 12th, 2008 at 1:06 am

    haha cool

    I want to see a Japanese live action where they inject 2 liters of horse sperm into a kitten and then put it throw a buzz saw or something, call it catcake.

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