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Posted: 8:48 a.m. Friday, Oct. 12, 2012

Giraffe at area zoo gives birth

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Giraffe at area zoo gives birth photo
The Cincinnati Zoo posted this photo of Tessa licking her newborn calf around 8:30 a.m. Oct, 12, 2012. Photo from cincinnatizoo.org
Giraffe at area zoo gives birth photo
Tessa is seen with her new calf this morning, Oct. 12, 2012. Photo by the Cincinnati Zoo

CINCINNATI —

The Cincinnati Zoo welcomed a new giraffe to its animal family this morning.

Tessa, the mother, went into labor at around 6 a.m. and gave birth shortly after 8 a.m. Tessa is a five-year-old Maasai giraffe. The father is Kimba, another giraffe also living in the zoo’s Giraffe Ridge exhibit.

This is Tessa’s second calf. Her first, Zurri, was born in April 2011 but died at 7-weeks old after fracturing her leg and having to be euthanized.

For more information about the zoo, go to http://cincinnatizoo.org.

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