How do you tell if a giraffe is pregnant? 🦒 The Zoo’s Reproductive Sciences branch began tracking Mstari's reproductive cycles in the Wildlife Health Centre using fecal hormone analysis in the summer of 2017. At that point, daily fecal collections showed that Mstari was mature and had a 14-day cycle, typical for Masai giraffes. Since then, Wildlife Care Keepers have closely followed Mstari's reproductive cycles, and breeding between Kiko and Mstari was observed in early and mid-January 2019. A

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