The Fort Worth Zoo family just grew by four hooves and one incredibly long neck! They are absolutely thrilled to welcome a healthy, sweet, and energetic female baby giraffe to the world. <\/p>\n
The 6’2″ tall baby was born May 31 weighing 152 pounds<\/p>\n
Mom and baby are doing fantastic, but there\u2019s just one tiny (well, giant) problem… she needs a name!<\/p>\n
You have until June 27 to vote on her name<\/a>. The three name options are:<\/p>\n Kumi: The Swahili word for “10,” celebrating the fact that this calf is her mother Kala’s 10th baby.Honey: A nod to the newborn female’s exceptionally sweet demeanor.Iris: A tribute to the native plant and flower species found across the sub-Saharan savannas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fort Worth Zoo family just grew by four hooves and one incredibly long neck! They are absolutely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[123861,116,118,117,123860],"class_list":["post-346953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-babygiraffe","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fortworthzoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}