What Is a Baby Giraffe Called?
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Ahhhh the age old question of baby animals….. So what is a baby giraffe called? To answer that question quite simply and straight forward, a baby giraffe is called a Calf.
Here is a little more info about the reproduction of Giraffes:
The mighty giraffe has a very long gestation period of between 400 – 460 days and after all this effort just one baby calf is born. It is possible for twin calfs but it’s pretty rare. She gives birth to her babies standing up and the embryonic sack will burst open with the calf falling to the ground.
A baby calf is about 6ft tall!! Huge!!!
They also develop really really fast and can normally run around within a few hours bearing no difference to a calf that is a week old. For the first few weeks they lay down most of the time and can be vunerable to various hunting animals and sadly only 25-50% of calf’s make it into adulthood.
Very interesting!
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