{"id":86883,"date":"2025-12-09T00:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/86883\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T00:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:27:12","slug":"endangered-masai-giraffe-welcomes-first-calf-at-san-diego-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/86883\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered Masai giraffe welcomes first calf at San Diego Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Giraffe-Calf.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Giraffe-Calf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-358618\"  \/><\/a>The giraffe calf born at the San Diego Zoo on Nov. 30. (Photo courtesy of the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance)<\/p>\n<p>Endangered Masai giraffe Mawe has stepped into motherhood for the first time welcoming her first calf last month, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegozoowildlifealliance.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Zoo<\/a>\u00a0announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors can now catch a glimpse of mom and the yet-to-be-named calf bonding in their maternity area in the zoo\u2019s Urban Jungle giraffe habitat. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a full-circle moment: both Mawe and the calf\u2019s father, Chifu, were born at the zoo. The calf joins another little one, Lemayian, who was born in July, according to zoo officials. <\/p>\n<p>Masai giraffes are classified as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iucnredlist.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red List of Threatened Species<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegozoowildlifealliance.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance<\/a>, part of the Masai Giraffe Species Survival Plan Program, said it\u2019s working to protect the natural habitat of giraffes through its <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegozoowildlifealliance.org\/conservation-hub\/savanna\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Savanna Conservation Hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The giraffe calf born at the San Diego Zoo on Nov. 30. (Photo courtesy of the San Diego&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3333,43831,48708,48709,48710,48711,48712,74,76,75,714,16707,48713],"class_list":["post-86883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-birth","tag-calf","tag-international-union-for-conservation-of-nature","tag-masai-giraffe","tag-masai-giraffe-species-survival-plan-program","tag-mawe","tag-red-list-of-threatened-species","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-zoo","tag-san-diego-zoo-wildlife-alliance","tag-savanna-conservation-hub"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}