Adventure Park's YouTube streaming of 15-year-old April the giraffe is capturing the moment live.
Prior to the calf's birth on Saturday at around 10 a.m., many people had questioned whether April the giraffe's labor is just an April Fool's prank.
April is said to have recovered perfectly and is eating "everything in sight".
The zoo's giraffe camera will continue to show a livestream of April and her baby until Thursday, April 20.
The park will hold a contest to name the calf. The mama giraffe tenderly licked her calf, which began to slowly pick its head up from the floor of the pen.
The zoo's owner says the newborn will stay with April until he is weaned, which can take six months or longer.
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The zoo began streaming live footage of April's pen on February 10, but the feed was briefly banned from YouTube for "nudity and sexual content" two weeks later.
Jordan Patch, owner of the Animal Adventure Park, says the natural curiosity surrounding giraffes and their birthing process has been a huge factor in drawing crowds. The new calf is the first giraffe born at Animal Adventure Park. Some viewers had previously complained that the content was "sexually explicit", resulting in YouTube briefly taking down the live stream in February.
The new mum, aged 15, became a celebrity after her pregnancy was livestreamed to millions on "giraffe cam".
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Now that the baby giraffe has finally arrived, many of his ardent new fans are asking, "What's his name?"
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