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Contents. April (giraffe) April (April 18, 2000 – April 2, 2021) was a reticulated giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata) at the Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, New York, in the United States. She gained worldwide fame after live videos of her in the late stages of pregnancy and the subsequent birth were uploaded to YouTube in 2017.
Website. www.cmzoo.org. The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is a zoological park located southwest of downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Cheyenne Mountain in the United States. At an elevation of 6,714 feet (2,046 m) above sea level, it is the highest zoo in the country. The zoo covers 140 acres (57 ha), 40 of which are in use.
The giraffe is a large African hoofed mammal belonging to the genus Giraffa. It is the tallest living terrestrial animal and the largest ruminant on Earth. Traditionally, giraffes have been thought of as one species, Giraffa camelopardalis, with nine subspecies.
The Masai giraffe (Giraffa tippelskirchi[2]), also spelled Maasai giraffe, and sometimes called the Kilimanjaro giraffe, is a species or subspecies of giraffe. It is native to East Africa. The Masai giraffe can be found in central and southern Kenya and in Tanzania. It has distinctive jagged, irregular leaf-like blotches that extend from the ...
The male Masai giraffe, born to parents Kianga and Baridi on Friday, is the first calf to be born at the zoo since 2012. It stood at 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 160 pounds at birth, the zoo ...
The Seneca Park Zoo’s other female Masai giraffe, Iggy, is also pregnant and within in her delivery window. Giraffe gestation periods range from 13 to 15 months making it difficult to predict a ...
Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St., is home to five Masai giraffes — females Kipenzi, Iggi and Pippi and males Olmsted (or Olmy) and JD. Reporter Marcia Greenwood covers general assignments.
Linnaeus, 1758. The northern giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), also known as three-horned giraffe, [2] is the type species of giraffe, G. camelopardalis, and is native to North Africa, although alternative taxonomic hypotheses have proposed the northern giraffe as a separate species. [3][1] Once abundant throughout Africa since the 19th century ...