Nairobi - A giraffe suspected of killing a US pastor at a luxury Kenyan hotel jumped to his death from a cliff after resisting attempts to examine its hooves for bloodstains, the hotel manager said on Wednesday.
"The giraffe was darted and I am told it went over the side of a cliff," Aberdare Country Club general manager James Drysdale said.
Police said an aroused giraffe was the prime supect in the death on Sunday of a middle-aged American pastor resident in Kenya who was found in the hotel's private game sanctuary.
The suspected rogue giraffe was tracked down and caught by Kenya Wildlife Service officials who injected it with a tranquiliser.
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'The animal, being an animal, did what it wanted to do' "The animal, being an animal, did what it wanted to do. Perhaps in its drugged state it did not notice there was a cliff there," said Drysdale.
"You can never get into the mind of a giraffe," he said. "They are massive animals, it's not like taking a cow for a walk. Once a giraffe takes it in its head to do something, that's it.
"Unfortunately people get too close to wild animals and tend to forget they are wild, and anything can happen."
Drysdale said the dead giraffe's hooves had been checked to see if they bore bloodstains of the dead man but that he did not know the results.
"It is is out of the question that a lion or buffalo was responsible, because we don't have them in the park," he added. - Sapa-AFP
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