{"id":2186459,"date":"2025-04-15T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=2186459"},"modified":"2025-04-15T13:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:24:11","slug":"endangered-rothschild-baby-giraffe-stands-for-the-first-time-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/endangered-rothschild-baby-giraffe-stands-for-the-first-time-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered Rothschild Baby Giraffe Stands For The First Time [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rothschild giraffes are an endangered species, with only 670 left in the world.<\/p>\n<p>This adorable calf was born March 22 at the LEO Zoological Conservation Center (LEOZCC), a preservation refuge and breeding center for rare, threatened and endangered species in Greenwich, Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having only been alive for 30 minutes, the baby was learning to stand up on its own.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Baby Giraffe First Time Standing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ls2jv6gAeuk\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onegreenplanet.org\/animals\/watch-endangered-rothschild-baby-giraffe-stands-for-the-first-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">article<\/a> was first published by One Green Planet on 11 April 2025. 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This adorable calf was born March 22 at the LEO Zoological Conservation Center (LEOZCC), a preservation refuge and breeding center for rare, threatened and endangered species in Greenwich, Connecticut. Despite having only been alive for 30 minutes, the baby was learning to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":2204157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-1500w,f_auto,q_auto:good:444,e_sharpen:60\/MSNBC\/Components\/Photo\/_new\/tdy_hall_giraffe_130325.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Endangered Rothschild Baby Giraffe Stands For The First Time [Video]","footnotes":""},"categories":[6985,5],"tags":[1904],"class_list":["post-2186459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wildlife","tag-giraffes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2186459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2204157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}