Published 14.19
A giraffe was born at the zoo Zoologisk Have in Copenhagen on Monday morning.
Usually the mother clears the calf’s airways, but this time it had to be done with the help of zoo staff.
“We are very happy. However, it was a bit too exciting a start. The little calf needed help with breathing, but otherwise the birth went really well,” says zookeeper Frederik Søberg Hougaard in a press release.
This spring, a giraffe calf was born on March 13 and another on the 27th of the same month.
“It has been an eventful spring. Now it was the oldest female in the herd that gave birth to her calf,” says Frederik Søberg Hougaard.
A giraffe is pregnant for about 15 months. A calf weighs 50–60 kilos at birth and is barely two meters tall.
