April the Giraffe May Be Pregnant Again 6 Months After Viral Birth

Animal Adventure Park owner Jordan Patch fueled speculation of another pregnancy during his appearance on Good Morning America Thursday.

"I cannot confirm nor deny the possibility of another pregnancy," Patch said of 15-year-old April. "Are we ready for another giraffe cam, world? You tell me."

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April is already a parent to four other calves including Tajiri, who is "already approaching about 10-feet in height," according to Patch.

For 65 days, the world was glued to the zoo's ongoing live stream of April during her previous pregnancy, which spanned over 16-months.

"She's obviously very in tune to [Tajiri] and protective of him, but she's also allowing him to take on that independent trait that he has, which definitely comes from hisof starting to migrate as the first migration date, and the time of migration back to winter host as the end of migration. There were some vague time descriptions of these parameters in some literature, such as "the beginning of the month", "the end of the month", "the first (or last) ten days". Therefore, we specifically quantified such time information without specific dates. For example, the description about the beginning of a month was set as the first day of that month while the end of a month was set as the last day of that month, and the first, middle, and last ten days of a month were set as 5th, 15th, and 25th of that month, respectively.

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