The male Masai giraffe named Tino was born 160 pounds and six feet tall in the facility Saturday morning. The Gordy family — longtime supporters of the work at the Houston Zoo — named the baby ...

It's a boy! Houston Zoo received quite a shock on Saturday, April 27th when zookeepers arrived in the morning to find that their pregnant giraffe had given birth! Zookeepers knew that the 9-year ...

The 314-pound calf was standing just six minutes after her birth (Houston Zoo) Shanti had been pregnant for 21 months. Pachyderms, like elephants, rhinoceroses, and hippopotamuses, have one of the ...