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Video: Bronx Zoo's Adorable Baby Giraffe Sees Butterfly, Chases It
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Published Apr 16, 2012
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The adorable baby Baringo giraffe at the Bronx Zoo was enjoying the fine weather this past weekend. Watch her walking around the African Plains exhibit—and, at 42 seconds in, discover a butterfly!
The calf, which is still unnamed (the Bronx Zoo names all of its giraffes in memory of Mr. and Mrs. James Carter, benefactors for the Carter Giraffe Building), was approximately 6 feet tall and over 100 pounds at birth; the Wildlife Conservation Society says she could eventually grow to 16 feet and weigh 2,600 pounds.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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