CALAUIT ISLAND: With a taste for tropical fruit and a reputation as thieves, a herd of giraffes on Calauit Island is one of late strongman President Ferdinand Marcos’ most intriguing legacies.

The 20 giraffes, along with dozens of zebra and antelope, are descendants of a boatload of animals imported from Africa in the 1970s— supposedly in a Noah’s Ark-style effort to save them from extinction.