Baby giraffe greets visitors at Utah's Hogle Zoo
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Utah's Hogle Zoo has a new resident: a baby giraffe.
The zoo says the 6-foot bundle of leggy joy was born Sept. 23, and mom and baby girl are doing great. They spent the past week bonding and were displayed to the public in the giraffe yard for the first time Wednesday.
Hogle Zoo has displayed giraffes since 1969 and has had 16 successful giraffe births.
The baby giraffe's mother is 9-year-old Kipenzi, who also gave birth in 2010 to Jamar, a baby giraffe that later died. The new baby's father, Riley, was sent to the Oregon Zoo a few months ago due to limited space while construction begins on the zoo's African Savanna.
Riley will return to Hogle Zoo upon completion of that exhibit in 2014.
The zoo says the 6-foot bundle of leggy joy was born Sept. 23, and mom and baby girl are doing great. They spent the past week bonding and were displayed to the public in the giraffe yard for the first time Wednesday.
Hogle Zoo has displayed giraffes since 1969 and has had 16 successful giraffe births.
The baby giraffe's mother is 9-year-old Kipenzi, who also gave birth in 2010 to Jamar, a baby giraffe that later died. The new baby's father, Riley, was sent to the Oregon Zoo a few months ago due to limited space while construction begins on the zoo's African Savanna.
Riley will return to Hogle Zoo upon completion of that exhibit in 2014.
Awww...kisses from mom. Can't get any better than that! What a cute little giraffe!
Congratulations Kipenzi !! What a cutie
The little guy appears to have that look of "Ahhh Mom, not in front of the others".......
I'm glad that they stick their neck out to help these critters.
Give us some tongue!!!!
What a cutie.
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She's so cute!