Kids & Family
Phoenix Zoo Announces Birth Of Baby Giraffe
It's a girl, the zoo declared. The baby - born a week ago - weighed in at 150 pounds. Baby and mom are doing fine.
It's a girl! A 150-pound girl that will grow up to be very, very tall. That's the word from the Phoenix Zoo, which announced Tuesday that Sunshine - one of their female giraffes - gave birth a week ago.
Sunshine and baby are doing fine.
This is Sunshine's first calf. The two remain in the giraffe barn until zookeepers decide the baby is ready to meet other animals and go out on her own. (For more local news, subscribe to the Phoenix Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts).
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Sunshine is a Masai giraffe who arrived at the zoo three years ago with the hopes that she would breed with Migu, an eight-year-old Masai who arrived in Phoenix from the Los Angeles Zoo in 2010.
Apparently, those hopes were fulfilled.
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Photos courtesy Phoenix Zoo.
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