She is a female, she weighs 57 kilos, measures 1.75 m and does not yet have a first name: a baby Rothschild giraffe, a rare subspecies, was born on September 28 at the Amnéville zoo, a first for the Moselle park which announced the happy event on Tuesday.
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“
A giraffe is a first for us!
In thirty years the animal park has experienced thousands of births, but a first is always moving,
”said Thomas Grangeat, ethologist and educational manager.
In France the births of baby giraffes “can
be counted on the fingers of one hand
” each year, he said.
This giraffe will measure about 5 meters when it is an adult.
There are less than 1,600 individuals of this subspecies in the wild in Kenya and Uganda.
One of its characteristics is the absence of spots on the paws.
The little giraffe stood on its feet two hours after birth to suckle for the first time from its mother, Liana, whose first baby was.
The animal "is
doing very well
".
His name will be chosen in the coming days by a vote of friends of the Amnéville zoo on social networks.