Incredible! Giraffe caught on tape giving birth to 6ft tall baby (PHOTOS)

An endangered giraffe gave birth on Saturday to a baby already about 6 feet tall.
Staff at Paignton Zoo in China filmed the mother giraffe delivering the baby with the newborn running around within hours of being born.
Reports say the mother giraffe, Sabgha gave birth to the yet unnamed baby during the day which is an unusual occurrence for a giraffe. Allowing the zoo keepers record the birth was also termed as unususal.
Read the Daily Mail report below:

The baby girl was born at the Devon zoo on Saturday afternoon, and already stands more than six foot tall and was on her feet within hours.

Mother Sangha gave birth during the day which is unusual for a giraffe, but also allowed her keepers to record it.

 

This unnamed female Rothschild’s Giraffe was born at Paignton Zoo in Devon on Saturday

 

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Unusually mother Sangha gave birth during the day which allowed zookeepers to film it

The girl’s father is 10-year-old Yoda, who arrived in Devon from Givskud Zoo, Denmark in September 2006, while mother Sangha came from Liberec Zoo in Slovakia.

The gestation period for the species is between 14 and 16 months, after which they give birth standing up in order to break the umbilical chord.

The breeding pair did produce one other calf, a male, which was born in August last year but died shortly afterwards.

The zoo’s other female is Janica, who came from Duvr Kralove Zoo in the Czech Republic

 

 

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The birth is important as Rothschild’s Giraffe are the most endangered of all the giraffe species

Janica gave birth to Valentino in February 2012, while Otilie was born to Sangha in September 2012.

The zoo’s giraffes are all Rothschild’s Giraffe, which are classified as Endangered.

The species is named after Lord Walter Rothschild who discovered them in east Africa in the early 1900s.

 

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Sangha and her breeding partner Yoda had another calf, a male, in August last year but it died shortly after birth

They used to be common across Sudan, Kenya and Uganda, but now they are the most endangered of all giraffe species.

With just 670 left in the wild, it makes them rarer than Giant Pandas, of which there are thought to be 1,600 left.

There are thought to be about 450 in captivity, and efforts in 2011 to re-introduce individuals back into the Lake Baringo area in Kenya have proved successful.