Jude Hagin, the commissioner of the Film Commission of Real Florida, said she had heard of the zebra's possible involvement in the movie months ago. "This is exciting news," she said.

Since there are giraffes in Parisian zoos, there necessarily had to be a first one, and Rémi Bezançon and Jean-Christophe Lie’s Zarafa is a beautifully animated and often moving telling of how ...