Reported by the Lion Country Safari Marketing Department
West Palm Beach, FL – Lion Country Safari’s newest giraffe baby, born on May 21st picks his own name. A naming contest, hosted by PBPULSE.com, provided many names and allowed guests to pick the top 4. Those names were presented on poster boards to the baby and he walked up to the name Jigsaw. The baby seemed content with that name; he stayed with it for ten minutes.
Jigsaw was six feet tall at birth and weighed one hundred fifty-four pounds. He and mom will be segregated from the herd in the maternity pen to allow bonding time, but both are visible in the drive-through preserve (section 7, Hwange National Park) or from the giraffe feeding exhibit at Lion Country Safari. In nearly three months, Jigsaw will join the remainder of the giraffe herd at Lion Country Safari. The giraffe baby cam is still live at http://www.pbpulse.com/baby-giraffe-cam/. Over five thousand guests have logged on to watch the new baby at Lion Country Safari.
Female giraffe reproduce year-round beginning at about four years of age. Their conception peak is usually during the rainy season and their gestation lasts approximately fifteen months. Giraffe calves are born while the mother is in a standing position and they drop to the ground head first. Life expectancy of a giraffe is twenty-five years.
