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By DAVID FISCHER<\/strong><\/p>\n

A giraffe named Gracie is missing in Texas, and the search for her has become a tall order.<\/p>\n

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Gracie, who is about 3 years old, has been missing for nearly two weeks after escaping her enclosure at Cedar Hollow Ranch in the Texas Hill Country, said Vic Jones, who owns the remote property about 100 miles west of San Antonio. He said Wednesday that Gracie had wandered into a part of the privately owned preserve that other giraffes previously avoided.<\/p>\n

Jones said he has sent up helicopters to look for Gracie, a few sightings have trickled in, and a $5,000 reward is on the table.<\/p>\n

But the giraffe, which stands roughly the height of a tree, hasn\u2019t turned up.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe wound up going up and feeding in an area on the hillside and the rocky ledges that none of the other giraffes had ever gone on before,\u201d Jones said. \u201cAnd when she came down off of there, she came down on the wrong side of the gate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ranch is in rural Real County, where its roughly 2,700 residents were put on alert to be on the lookout for a missing giraffe. Jones said the search area is extremely remote, and the likelihood of Gracie encountering any humans is low.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are not in danger of her because she\u2019s not around people,\u201d Jones said. \u2018She\u2019s out in very, very rough, heavily wooded lands.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Texas Hill Country has one of the largest concentrations of exotic captive animals in the country. Real County Sheriff Nathan Johnson said the mild climate and rugged terrain seems to serve as a good stand-in for most of the animals\u2019 native African environments.<\/p>\n

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He rattled off a list of animals that have gone missing over the years, especially after floods, but said this was his first giraffe.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had wildebeests, I\u2019ve had water buffalo, I\u2019ve had monkeys, I\u2019ve had zebras, all go missing,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cSometimes we recover them, and sometimes we don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the middle of Texas is not a giraffe\u2019s native environment, Jones said Gracie should be able to find plenty of leaves and other vegetation to eat. He said other animals were not likely to bother her.<\/p>\n

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Jones said he initially had helicopters searching an area of about 7,500 acres with no luck. A few days later, there was a report that Gracie was spotted to the south.<\/p>\n

But by the time they could search the area, Jones said, she was already gone.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re always two three days late for where the information is coming from, so that makes it tough,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n

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