00:06We're here at the San Diego Zoo's giraffe exhibit, where earlier this week, Harriet,
00:10a seven-year-old Maasai giraffe, gave birth. She gave birth to a little boy. He doesn't
00:16have a name yet, but when he was born, he was six-foot-two and he was 146 pounds. Now,
00:22this is after a 14-and-a-half-month gestation, so he's quite large. So he's four days old,
00:27and he's already gained 10 pounds, and he's still around six-foot-two. Today was the first time that
00:34he was given access to the whole giraffe exhibit. The giraffe and calf are able to explore the exhibit.
00:41We have some gazelles in our giraffe exhibit, so he's meeting the gazelles for the first time,
00:45and then after he got used to running around the exhibit a little bit, then we introduced the rest
00:51of the herd with him. The other giraffe, they've seen lots of babies, so they pretty much go and
00:57eat brows, but their newest baby will come up, and he'll sniff all the other members of the herd,
01:03and he'll kind of introduce himself to all these guys.
01:22He's mouthing a lot of different things. He's mouthing the rocks. He's actually imitating,
01:27his parents, and that he's trying to mouth some brows, and he'll probably start to eat the brows,
01:34and other food items fairly soon. So these guys will nurse for about four to six months,
01:40or actually as long as mom allows them to nurse, but usually it's about four to six months.
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