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The five-year-old female is a reticulated python and is native to south east Asia.

On Thursday, the Great Plains Zoo and Butterfly House & Aquarium in Sioux Falls announced the death of Chioke, an 18-year-old reticulated giraffe.

Genetic studies have found that giraffe DNA falls into four distinct clusters: the Northern giraffe, the reticulated giraffe, the Masai giraffe and the Southern giraffe.

However, such incidents have only been reliably documented in Asia, and with snakes known as reticulated pythons.

“Our water supply is just what we can get from the sky and from the rivers. We don’t have a reticulated supply.”