(Gray News) – April the giraffe has given birth to a new calf, and its already standing and walking around on wobbly legs.
Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, NY, announced Saturday that she was in labor, much to the amazement of her avid followers.
The birth took less than two hours and at its peak some 300,000 people tuned in to watch the live stream on YouTube.
It can take as little as 30 minutes or up to 2 hours for a giraffe to give birth once labor starts.
The gender of the calf has not yet been revealed.
The mother was seen licking the newborn as park employees looked on in excitement from outside the animal’s pen.
The 17-year-old giraffe became a viral sensation two years ago when she gave birth to a calf named Tajiri.
Viewers of the live stream reacted with delight at the sight of the animal giving birth.
“I don’t know why I’m crying happy tears,” said Jennifer Hodell in the YouTube comments section.
“We need chocolate,” said Susan Sapp.
On Monday April appeared to be having contractions and “pushing," according to the Animal Adventure Park on their Facebook page.
The park, where April has lived since 2015, began its “Giraffe Watch 2019″ on the last day of February.
On Thursday the animal park tweeted she had “profoundly advanced” in the birthing process.
Anticipation reached a frenzy during the 2017 birth, with hundreds of millions of people tuning in to the YouTube live stream over the course of weeks as they waited.
More than a million people watched the live feed as she gave birth in, appropriately enough, April of that year.
April has given birth to four calves, according to Animal Adventure Park. She enjoys carrots and painting.
There are approximately 90,000 giraffe in the wild. About 1,200 giraffe are in captive management programs, the park said.
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