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Oh baby! April the giraffe finally delivers that long-awaited calf

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The baby giraffe, whose mom has been a web star for months, was born safely at Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, New York.
The gender of April’s calf has yet to be announced.
It’s a giraffe!
April the pregnant giraffe is finally April the no-longer-pregnant giraffe, after the star of the online world’s favorite livestream finally gave birth in the early morning hours of Saturday, April 15.
Labor began around 7:30 a.m. ET/4:30 a.m. PT Saturday. Giraffe calves slide out of their standing mothers and fall several feet to the ground, but this was expected, and the calf was uninjured as well as on its wobbly legs within an hour or so. No word yet on the gender.
Thousands of fans — numbers topping 500,000 now that the baby is born — have been watching April through the last weeks of her 15-month pregnancy.

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