On China's busy roads, getting from A to B can be a tall order at the best of times.
So spare a thought for Mengmeng the giraffe, whose move to a new home took her on a route with obstacles including electricity pylons, motorway signs and more than 20 low bridges.
It took zoo keepers in Linyi, Shandong province, eastern China, seven hours to transport the animal a few miles to the wildlife park's new grounds.
Trainers spent months beforehand teaching the 15-year-old animal to duck when she saw low obstacles in a specially built pen at her old zoo.
Startled drivers on the route could see Mengmeng peeking out over the top of her trailer and dipping down every time a bridge or a pylon came up.
'There was no way to get to the new zoo without getting under low slung obstacles so we taught Mengmeng how to duck,' keeper Shing Mu said.
source: dailymail
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