In the new York zoo the long-awaited replenishment in the family of giraffes. Video

The name of the baby will choose through the ballot box.

A giraffe named April living in the zoo’s Animal Adventure Park (new York), finally gave birth.

The child’s gender is still unknown. According to experts, he weighs about 68 kg and his height is more than 1.8 meters.

It was expected that 15-year-old April will give birth in late winter — in February, the zoo launched a live video of her enclosure. Millions of viewers waited, and when she gives birth, but in the video nothing happened.

On Saturday, April 15, the zoo has launched another broadcast, this time with real labor. Them live watched for at least 1.2 million people. “We had a baby! Everything was perfect. It’s great,” said zoo owner Jordan Patch.

April’s has a website on which you can even subscribe to SMS notifications about childbirth. Fans cirafici also supported the event financially in a crowdfunding campaign in April and her baby were collected 127 thousand dollars, while we had only 50 thousand.

The name of the baby will choose through the ballot box. This is the fourth baby April, his father became a five-year giraffe named Oliver.

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