S.F. Zoo welcomes newborn giraffe:

The youngest resident of the San Francisco Zoo was already standing tall today within hours of his birth – a good thing since he is a giraffe.

It was the second birth of a giraffe calf at the zoo this year, and caretakers were ecstatic.

‘He’s quite big, actually,’ said Ingrid Russell-White, the zoo’s curator of mammals. ‘They are normally pretty big when they are born.’