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The baby giraffe that was just born at Chester Zoo
(lemmy.world)
The leggy newcomer arrived into the world to new mum Orla, with the joyous scene captured by the zoo’s CCTV cameras, at 11:30pm on Tuesday 12 March.
Footage shows the calf falling from a height of six feet onto a bed of soft straw following a 472 day pregnancy and a labour lasting more than three hours.
The youngster can then be seen stumbling to its feet and suckling from mum for the first time – all within just 30 minutes of being born.
Zookeepers are yet to determine if the two-day old is male or female and have said the calf already weighs more than 70kg and stands at 6 foot tall – but will grow to be more than 18 foot tall and weigh 1,000kg.
Giraffes are my favorite animals. I have a zoo membership at least 50% because it means I can just go hang out by the giraffe habitat and watch them for a while, so I'm basically an expert and can say that this baby is perfect and amazing and I would die for it.
They're so big! Like a creature from scifi
I know! Giant and knobby and gangly but then they have those Disney eyes and lashes. They're the best.
Highly recommend checking out the giraffes at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado. You can feed them!