![This Feb. 10, 2022, image released by the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance shows Msituni, a giraffe calf born with an unusual disorder that caused her legs to bend the wrong way, at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, north of San Diego.](https://www.oregonlive.com/resizer/RVPU95ALgYM0C83jxRKWldnUpGg=/0x1200/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/advancelocal/BZGUFJQE2FG57GBENCVCG6M3AY.jpg)
![This Feb. 10, 2022, image released by the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance shows Msituni, a giraffe calf born with an unusual disorder that caused her legs to bend the wrong way, in San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, north of San Diego.](https://www.oregonlive.com/resizer/pGpZoUsVGNNF0Mc5ppJAME7JO7I=/0x1200/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/advancelocal/RDGXKSKZUBBXLGYOEDQ3OG4EI4.jpg)
![This March 22, 2022, image released by the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance shows Msituni, a giraffe calf born with an unusual disorder that caused her legs to bend the wrong way, at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, north of San Diego.](https://www.oregonlive.com/resizer/PXXFbl0EIAF2--bKAMM6VAM04jo=/0x1200/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/advancelocal/UMBKVWREDBHEDAVXRQCFPLN4YI.jpg)
![This April 8, 2022, image released by the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance shows Msituni, a baby giraffe calf with an unusual disorder that caused her legs to bend the wrong way, at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, north of San Diego.](https://www.oregonlive.com/resizer/bIkB2FLtGIoBKyVAp1TUKbKSdOE=/0x1200/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/advancelocal/ZOZWRHLZ7REOJMYVLACQGFC7OY.jpg)
![This Feb. 18, 2022, image released by the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance shows Msituni, a giraffe calf born with an unusual disorder that caused her legs to bend the wrong way, at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, north of San Diego.](https://www.oregonlive.com/resizer/fmj5t6KYu7NBW0HLj3neU5b-3bw=/0x1200/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/advancelocal/PNX6NGCDRJDZTE4MBGTTB4V64Y.jpg)
![This Feb. 10, 2022, image released by the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance shows Zoo veterinarians and experts in orthotics at the Hanger Clinic fitting braces to Msituni, a giraffe calf born with an unusual disorder that caused her legs to bend the wrong way, at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, north of San Diego.](https://www.oregonlive.com/resizer/NgaDIRwlKql45JIvcr0SuI-cVhI=/0x1200/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/advancelocal/NAZU4WKS45ADZOKTBBH6U3QQZE.jpg)
ESCONDIDO, Calif. — Over the past three decades Ara Mirzaian has fitted braces for everyone from Paralympians to children with scoliosis. But Msituni was a patient like none other — a newborn giraffe.
ESCONDIDO, Calif. — Over the past three decades Ara Mirzaian has fitted braces for everyone from Paralympians to children with scoliosis. But Msituni was a patient like none other — a newborn giraffe.