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Anyone watching April the pregnant giraffe?

Josie

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Dang -- Animal Adventure Park is making some money with the livestream of the giraffe. People are donating left and right in the chat.

 
When is the baby due?
 
Josie said:
Who knows? I think people have been glued to the livestream for a couple months now.
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So everyone on that stream is just watching a giraffe in a cage stand there and they have no idea when the baby is due? I could see wanting to witness the birth. It's not exactly my thing but I can understand why someone would do that. I have no idea why they would watch just for the heck of it.
 
Lutherf said:
So everyone on that stream is just watching a giraffe in a cage stand there and they have no idea when the baby is due? I could see wanting to witness the birth. It's not exactly my thing but I can understand why someone would do that. I have no idea why they would watch just for the heck of it.
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I'm sure THEY know -- I just don't. It might be in the description of the video.
 
There are over $1,000 of donations right now in chat. The donations disappear after so long so who knows how much money they've raised just by having this livestream up for months.
 
Josie said:
Who knows? I think people have been glued to the livestream for a couple months now.
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Greetings, Josie. :2wave:

A month or so ago there was a very interesting program on TV that featured many species of wild animals and how nature equipped them for survival, and giraffes were one of the species they featured.

Giraffe moms give birth standing up and the baby is born feet first. The minute the baby's feet are on the ground, the placenta, which has been stretching to lower the baby the six feet to the ground, detaches from both of them and they hurry to the center of a briar thicket the mom had chosen nearby, where the baby safely feeds!

Fascinating how God, or nature, or whatever one believes in, managed the smallest details necessary for animals to survive in the wild, including being able to run immediately after birth! :wow: :thumbs:

I wonder if they will show the birth of April's baby?
 
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Ms. Breath has had one of her laptops tuned into this for about a month now. Maybe longer. She told me last week that there was a group of people that wanted animal adventure planet to take this off of their feed. It seems that some have deemed that the content is too sexual. "Isn't that special."
 
She's finally having her baby if anyone's interested in watching it live. There are already baby legs sticking out.
 
[video]http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/water-cooler/today-is-not-the-day-to-stop-watching-park-owner-says-of-april-the-giraffes-live-stream[/video]

The little guy is trying to stand. It's not working real well yet but it's cute as can be.
 
I watched. And loved how dad Oliver kept pacing and poking his head over the stall.
 
Lutherf said:
[video]http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/water-cooler/today-is-not-the-day-to-stop-watching-park-owner-says-of-april-the-giraffes-live-stream[/video]

The little guy is trying to stand. It's not working real well yet but it's cute as can be.
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It surely was. I kept talking to my screen and telling him, "C'mon--you can do it!"
 
nota bene said:
It surely was. I kept talking to my screen and telling him, "C'mon--you can do it!"
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It's amazing that in a matter of a couple of hours the baby manages to go from "I've fallen and I can't get up!" to prancing around like a pro.
 
Lutherf said:
It's amazing that in a matter of a couple of hours the baby manages to go from "I've fallen and I can't get up!" to prancing around like a pro.
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I've seen foals get right up on their trembly legs, and it's commonplace for them to be up within an hour. As you say, amazing.
 
I don't support this kind of captivity so I won't be watching.
 
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