An endangered giraffe gave birth on Saturday to a baby already about 6 feet tall.
Staff at Paignton Zoo in China filmed the mother giraffe delivering the baby with the newborn running around within hours of being born.
Reports say the mother giraffe, Sabgha gave birth to the yet unnamed baby during the day which is an unusual occurrence for a giraffe. Allowing the zoo keepers record the birth was also termed as unususal.
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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