A rare, nearly 6-foot-tall giraffe listed as an endangered animal has been born in a Connecticut conservation center.
The Greenwich Time reports that Petal, a 6-year-old Rothschild giraffe, gave birth on Friday to a female calf as a group of other giraffes and staff at the LEO Zoological Conservation Center watched.
Marcella Leone, founder and director of the center, said the young animal is curious.
When fully grown, the newborn, who will mingle with a group of five giraffes, could reach 18 feet in height.
The calf is the first born at the off-exhibit conservation center.
Rothschild giraffes were named and described by Lord Walter Rothschild, a British zoologist, after an expedition to East Africa in the early 1900s.
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