Chester Zoo baby giraffe takes first steps outside

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Karamoja is only a few days old, but she is already growing fast.

The baby giraffe delighted visitors to Chester Zoo by making her first public appearance.

And there was time for her to take a visit to the measuring stick within the giraffe enclosure at the attraction.

The baby Rothschild’s giraffe, already more than two metres high, was named after a region in Uganda where the endangered subspecies still lives in the wild.

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