Denver Zoo quietly welcomes newborn giraffe

While the world has been patiently waiting on the birth of a calf by April the giraffe at a NY animal park, the Denver Zoo has announced their own giraffe birth.

The calf will weigh around 150 pounds and be approximately 6-feet-tall at birth, PIX11 reports.

April the giraffe is being livestreamed at Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, N.Y. She’s about a month overdue, and viewers around the world are tuning in to watch the animal move about her pen.

The leading cause of giraffes’ decline is habitat degradation and other human activity, she said, although the animals are occasionally poached for their tail hairs or hunted for their meat.

If it seems like we’ve been waiting forever for Animal Adventure Park’s April to give birth, you’re not far off.

Dobby was having difficulty standing and nursing, so zoo staff provided supplemental feeding – but the calf wasn’t receiving enough infection-fighting proteins from his mother.

Dobby’s birth brings the total number of giraffes at the Denver Zoo to five.

At 9am GMT this morning – 4am in NY – 45,000 people were watching April has she hunkered down in the corner of her enclosure.

April is 15, and an old hand at birthin’ babies: This is her fourth, and the park notes on the livestream say that she’s never had a miscarriage or a stillbirth.

As the entire country was anxiously awaiting a mother giraffe going into labor, another pregnant giraffe seemed to steal the spotlight.

Dobby, the Denver Zoo’s new baby giraffe.

Patch set out to debunk some of the rumors and myths about April, her baby and her care that have been swirling around the web since the live cam went viral last week.

The zoo will hold an online competition to name April’s calf.