Zoo pregnancies: 2 spotted long-necks expected this summer

Get the Facebook Livestream ready because the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is expecting not one but TWO giraffe babies in the coming months.

There’s a bit of a sisterwife situation going on as the calves will have separate mothers, Zuri and Cami, but the same father, Enzi.

But it’s all good, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Species Survival Plan® for giraffes recommended the breeding. 

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Zuri’s babe is due sometime between late August and mid-September.

Cami’s calf is due between late September and mid-October.

Neither sexes have been determined yet.

As the mothers healthily and steadily balloon, Zoo staff anxiously awaits these special giraffe babies—the first to be born in Columbus in nearly 20 years and the first ever to be born in the Heart of Africa region since its opening in 2014!

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