Draft:Benito (giraffe)

Benito is a giraffe who is currently in Africam Safari, a zoo in Puebla, Mexico, after being relocated from Ciudad Juárez. He first lived in a zoo in Culiacán, Sinaloa before being moved to Ciudad Juárez after fears of attacks against Benito from an engaged male giraffe.

Benito first gained recognition after animal activists and a change.org petition called to relocate him from a shelter at a city park in Ciudad Juárez, in which he arrived in May 2023, to a ranch in McGregor, Texas, which was signed by more than 79,000 people. He was described as "lonely" in his shelter in Ciudad Juárez.