An endangered Rothschild’s giraffe gave birth to a baby girl at the Devon zoo on Saturday afternoon.
The baby born to mother Sangha and father Yoda was already 6ft tall at birth and was on her feet within hours.
She was born
during the day which is unusual for a giraffe as they mostly give birth
overnight and mother Sangha allowed her keepers, Staff at Paignton Zoo
to record it.
The zoo’s
giraffes are all Rothschild’s Giraffe, which are classified as
endangered. The species is named after Lord Walter Rothschild who
discovered them in east Africa in the early 1900s. They used to be
common across Sudan, Kenya and Uganda, but now they are the most
endangered of all giraffe species.
The
gestation period for the species is between 14 and 16 months, after
which they give birth standing up in order to break the umbilical chord.
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