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Baby, we've got a name.
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Meet Tajiri, the 2-week-old son of the world-famous April the giraffe of upstate New York. Technically, the name Alyssa's Choice (after the giraffe keeper) won, and Alyssa called the name Tajiri, which is Swahili for "hope," Beastly Adventure Park buyer Jordan Patch appear Monday.
The name was appear alive from the Giraffe Barn at the upstate New York zoo, which catapulted the giraffe into the high degree of the viral beastly apple back it started live-streaming her fourth abundance in February.
The name emerged from two circuit of fan voting that concluded Sunday. Other finalists included Apollo, Geoffrey, Gio, Harpur, Noah, Ollie, Patch, Patches and Unity.
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Anyone who capital to vote on a name could do so for $1 per vote. There was a five-vote minimum, and bodies could vote as abounding times as they wanted. Funds aloft will be breach amid the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, Ava's Little Heroes and Beastly Adventure Park, the zoo has said.
After months of waiting, April gave bearing April 15 in Harpursville, New York, while an admirers of about 1.2 actor bodies watched alive online. The babyish was built-in at aloof below 130 pounds and added than 5 anxiety tall; he's already developed a few inches in the aftermost several weeks, the zoo says.
The calf's angular legs wobbled as he attempted to angle on its own. But anon afore noon, the zoo aggregate an ambrosial photo of April nuzzling him while he stood below her aggravating to nurse.
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"All is well," the explanation read.
April teased her millions of all-around adorers for weeks, assuming signs of near-but-not-quite activity and contrarily alluring her admirers with beautiful right-at-the-camera gazes and argot flicks, bite noshing and nuzzling with her abundant adolescent but handsome 5-year-old beau.
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April's abundance was vaulted into all-around headlines in backward February afterwards YouTube briefly yanked the zoo's alive beck afterward complaints by beastly activists that it abandoned the site's behavior apropos "nudity and beastly content." Bags aloft bags of commenters accurate their annoyance on Facebook and YouTube, and the beck was adequate aural an hour or so.
Zoo buyer Jordan Patch said the accustomed concern surrounding giraffes and their bearing action was a huge agency in cartoon crowds.
"I anticipate the actuality that she's a giraffe and she's a accurate breed that bodies are absorbed in, that's fostered a lot of the attention," he said. "The actuality that you'll get to attestant the phenomenon of bearing from an beastly that you absolutely don't get to see accord bearing — that's neat."
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He added that April's abundance was added than aloof alive entertainment, but a able moment and antecedent for education.
Published at 1:36 AM PDT on May 1, 2017 | Updated at 7:40 AM PDT on May 1, 2017
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