{"id":648603,"date":"2013-03-25T11:09:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T15:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=222223"},"modified":"2013-03-25T11:09:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T15:09:41","slug":"rare-giraffe-born-at-connecticut-zoo-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/648603","title":{"rendered":"Rare Giraffe Born at Connecticut Zoo [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The LEO Zoological Conservation Center (LEOZCC) in Greenwich, Connecticut, has announced the birth of a rare giraffe.<\/p>\n<p>A six-year-old Rothschild giraffe named Petal gave birth to a female calf on Friday, March 22.  The center has stated that Petal &#8220;has bonded extremely well&#8221; with the calf and that the calf was standing and nursing within half an hour of being born.<\/p>\n<p>The Rothschild giraffe, named after Lord Walter Rothschild, is an endangered subspecies of giraffe.  The gestation period of the Rothschild giraffe is 14 to 16 months (Petal&#8217;s was 15).  The LEOZCC claims that there are fewer than 670 of the animals left in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>The LEOZCC is a non-profit refuge for endangered animals.  The organization focuses on breeding at-risk species, and has succeeded in the case of the Rothschild giraffe.  This birth was the LEOZCC&#8217;s first giraffe birth.<\/p>\n<p>The video below shows the calf standing up for the first time:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"616\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ls2jv6gAeuk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=FiHUunj9uh4:DPXEHRsNzS4:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=FiHUunj9uh4:DPXEHRsNzS4:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=FiHUunj9uh4:DPXEHRsNzS4:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=FiHUunj9uh4:DPXEHRsNzS4:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=FiHUunj9uh4:DPXEHRsNzS4:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=FiHUunj9uh4:DPXEHRsNzS4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=FiHUunj9uh4:DPXEHRsNzS4:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=FiHUunj9uh4:DPXEHRsNzS4:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=FiHUunj9uh4:DPXEHRsNzS4:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/FiHUunj9uh4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LEO Zoological Conservation Center (LEOZCC) in Greenwich, Connecticut, has announced the birth of a rare giraffe. A six-year-old Rothschild giraffe named Petal gave birth to a female calf on Friday, March 22. The center has stated that Petal &#8220;has bonded extremely well&#8221; with the calf and that the calf was standing and nursing within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7356,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}