{"id":122,"date":"2014-03-16T04:20:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T04:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ANIMALPAGES.COM\/animals\/?p=122"},"modified":"2025-08-05T19:27:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T02:27:43","slug":"rare-rothschild-giraffe-born-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/rare-rothschild-giraffe-born-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Rothschild Giraffe Born in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rothschilds are the world\u2019s rarest sub-species of giraffe \u2013 an ecotype of the <a href=\"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/meet-the-northern-giraffe-africas-rarest-tall-giant\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3898\">Nubian giraffe <\/a>\u2013 originating from Uganda and west central Kenya. So, it\u2019s exciting news when one is born. Kito, who already stands six feet tall, was born just last week at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dudleyzoo.org.uk\/news\/kito-finds-his-feet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dudley Zoo<\/a>\u00a0in the UK. Kito means \u2018precious\u2019 in Swahili, and that\u2019s a fitting name for this little guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DZG New Rothschild Giraffe Kito\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-6y56oZghsA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The zoo\u2019s assistant curator,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/entertainment\/2014\/03\/01\/newborn-giraffe-kito-walks-tall-at-dudley-zoo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Richard Brown, said<\/a>: \u201cKito\u2019s arrival has delighted everyone at Dudley Zoo. \u201cHe spent yesterday in the internal den bonding with mum and we decided to let the pair of them out in the paddock yesterday to enjoy the fine weather.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added: \u201cHe\u2019s quite a tall baby for a newborn and a very handsome chap and no doubt will fast become a favourite with visitors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" data-attachment-id=\"124\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/rare-rothschild-giraffe-born-in-the-uk\/kito-the-giraffe-02\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/kito-the-giraffe-02.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,600\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kito-the-giraffe-02\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/kito-the-giraffe-02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ANIMALPAGES.COM\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/kito-the-giraffe-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/kito-the-giraffe-02.jpg 900w, https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/kito-the-giraffe-02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/kito-the-giraffe-02-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1070\">Kito, a newborn rare Rothschild giraffe, stands six feet tall but is still dwarfed by his parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rothschilds are the world\u2019s rarest sub-species of giraffe \u2013 an ecotype of the Nubian giraffe \u2013 originating from Uganda and west central Kenya. So, it\u2019s exciting news when one is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[44,26,146,57,42,95,56,18,91],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animal-videos","tag-african-animals","tag-animal-facts","tag-animal-news","tag-baby-animals","tag-conservation","tag-endangered-animals","tag-giraffe","tag-videos","tag-zoo-animals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/kito-the-giraffe-01.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3913,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/3913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}