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<p><span style="font-weight:400">Gracie the Giraffe, who set the internet ablaze when she disappeared for almost two weeks in the Texas desert, was found Friday morning during an aerial helicopter search.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Vick Jones, who is the manager of the ranch from which Gracie escaped, participated in a helicopter scouting mission with Jeff Hill of Concho Aviation around 6:45 AM on Friday. While they were aloft, Hill spotted Gracie roughly four miles south of Cedar Hollow Ranch, according to a report from the Real County Sheriff’s Office.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">“She’s standing. She’s very calm. She looked good,” Jones </span><a href="https://www.chron.com/wildlife/article/gracie-giraffe-found-texas-22322094.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">said</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">. “There’s a lot of water there, a lot of food, stuff like that. She’s looking good, doing good.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Others who had taken part in the extensive search for Gracie expressed similar elation upon finding the elusive giraffe.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">“We found her. She’s fat and happy,” </span><a href="https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/gracie-the-giraffe-found-fat-and-happy-real-county-sheriff-johnson-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">said</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> Real County Sheriff Nathan T. Johnson, joking about her “catch-me-if-you-can, sucker” attitude. “We’re going to have to bring in a team and sedate her.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">As the Daily Wire previously </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pet-giraffe-goes-missing-in-texas?row=0&;elementPosition=1&;rowType=Web+Search+Overlay" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">, Gracie, a 4-year-old reticulated giraffe with rounded ears, escaped Cedar Hollow Ranch in Real County, Texas.</span><span style="font-weight:400"> Cedar Hollow Ranch is a private exotic animal breeding facility that is home to hundreds of animals, including Nubian ibexes, antelope, impalas, and other animals native to Africa and the Middle East.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">The giraffe reportedly vanished after feeding on an isolated hillside, finding an unfenced area opposite an 8-foot-tall gate. Jones </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/us/gracie-giraffe-texas-missing.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">said</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> the giraffe would walk around the ranch “like none of the others did,” adding that Gracie would often go to secluded areas and “eat on the tree limbs.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Reticulated giraffes around Gracie’s age are about 14-16 feet tall and can run up to 35 mph in short bursts, according to the </span><a href="https://www.denverzoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Reticulated-giraffe.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">Denver Zoo</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">. The species of giraffe is </span><a href="https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/88420717/88420720" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">listed</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources’ Red List.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">The disappearance of the giraffe made waves on the internet, with many users creating fake AI-generated videos and images depicting Gracie “sightings,” My San Antonio News </span><a href="https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/gracie-giraffe-not-found-texas-22318572.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">. </span></p>
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The Internet’s Favorite Giraffe Has Been Found
