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RAPPERSWIL, Switzerland - A zoo in Switzerland has named two recently-born giraffes after Ronaldo and Rivaldo - top strikers at World Cup champions Brazil.
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The zoo said on the weekend the names were selected out of over 2,500 suggestions from the public. The male giraffes were born in April in the "children's zoo" in Rapperswil, near Zurich, that belongs to the Knie circus.
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REUTERS NEWS SERVICE
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