If stories and pictures about baby animals are your thing then this is for you.
Zookeepers at Chester Zoo have welcomed another new member - a rare Rothschild's giraffe - the second birth of one of the wonderful endangered animals in just eight weeks.
After a 477-day pregnancy, 11-year-old mum Orla gave birth to the yet unsexed and unnamed calf in the early hours of Wednesday, May 8, following a two and a half hour labour.
The latest newcomer has been described as a "special new arrival" as there are fewer than 2,650 Rothschild's giraffes remaining in the wild and are still highly threatened with extinction.
The baby giraffe's birth was captured on camera as well as its first tentative steps and meeting with two month old brother Mburo who was born at the zoo in March .
Sarah Roffe, giraffe team manager at the zoo, said: "When you're the world's tallest land mammal, your entry into the world is a long one… and not always very graceful. But since giraffes give birth standing up, a calf starts off its life with a drop of up to two metres to the ground. This fall breaks the umbilical cord helps to stimulate its first breath.
"Following the birth, Orla's calf was then on its feet within 30 minutes – and is already towering above most of the keepers at nearly six feet tall.
"It's so far looking strong and healthy and is another special new arrival, coming hot on the hooves of Mburo who was born just eight weeks ago.
"Mburo was clearly highly interested in the new thing that had landed near to him. Seeing the two young calves together is wonderful."
Chester Zoo's experts, alongside The Giraffe Conservation Foundation (GCF) and the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), have been working to protect some of the last remaining populations of wild Rothschild’s giraffes in two national parks - Kidepo Valley and Murchison Falls.
