One of the giraffes that died at multi-millionaire Gordon Blankstein's private zoo, the Mountain View Conservation Centre, died form a combination of the cold and improper diet. The comments after the article wisely point out how incompetent you would have to be to think that giraffes wouldn't need heat in cold Canadian winters. Earlier, Gordon Blankstein had told reporters that his giraffes didn't need heat in the cold Canadian winters, and that was why he hadn't given them any.