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We didn't need the official stats to know that April the giraffe broke some records. After all, she was pregnant for what felt like forever before finally giving birth Saturday. But YouTube calculated the numbers and, yep, the pregnant giraffe's livestream and birth were totally record-setting.
April, the 15-year-old giraffe at the Animal Adventure Park zoo in Harpursville, New York, was a viral video star for just 66 days. Giraffes gestate for about 15 months, and the zoo trained a camera on her starting Feb. 10 when they thought she was likely to give birth soon. In that short amount of time, the stream became the second most live-viewed channel in YouTube history, the video site said. Read more...
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