Park owner bunks with giraffe

NEW CASTLE, Pensylvania (UPI) – The owner of a private zoo in Pennsylvania says he is the first person he knows of to become roommates with a giraffe.

Adam Guiher, owner of the Living Treasures Animal Park near New Castle, said he had a special structure built at the facility to house himself and Levi, a seven-month-old giraffe he obtained from a small zoo when his mother rejected him at three weeks old, The Youngstown (Ohio) Vindicator reported Monday.

Guiher said Levi, who currently stands at nine feet tall and will grow to be about 18 feet tall, can walk in and out of his 24-foot-high room whenever he wants to escape from weathe