A new baby giraffe was born at the Dallas Zoo earlier this month, officials announced.
A new male giraffe was born earlier this month at the Dallas Zoo, officials announced Monday.“Meet the newest addition to our giraffe herd — a little leggy boy born on April 1 to proud parents Katie and Tebogo,” the post stated.Tina Cloutier Barbour, associate vice president of animal care and welfare at the Dallas Zoo, said the calf was born in the late afternoon to evening hours, when staff members were about to go home.
About 2 a.m., Cloutier Barbour said she got a message from her staff that the calf had figured it out. More than two weeks later, the boy is healthy. As of Monday, he was 5′5, and weighed 138 pounds, according to zoo officials. He has already mingled with some of the other giraffes at the zoo, including his big sister Nea.
The zoo has made some changes in recent years to make its giraffe enclosure safer, Cloutier Barbour said. In 2021, staff and giraffe experts from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums evaluated the. The zoo has added substrate material in parts of the habitat that showed erosion and also installed cameras around the exhibit for monitoring animal interactions and behavior.
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