A baby giraffe, who was rejected by her mother after being born at the United Kingdom's Paignton Zoo on January 11, is flourishing under the zoo keeper's care.
It's unclear why the mother giraffe, Janica, refused to care for her female calf, Eliska.
Zoo keepers took on the motherly role for baby Eliska, who is already six feet tall and drinks two gallons of milk a day, reported Zoo Borns.
"She will take in around 10 percent of her body weight in milk each day and gain weight just as quickly. She was 63 kilos (139 pounds) at birth, but as she grows, so will her milk requirements," Matthew Webb, senior head keeper of mammals who has been helping to feed Eliska, told Zoo Borns.
The milk was donated to the zoo by a local organic dairy farm.
She will drink milk for the first nine months of her life, but at six months, she will begin to be weaned off the milk.
Zoo keepers plan to introduce Eliska to the rest of the giraffe herd at the zoo soon to ensure that she knows that she is a giraffe - not a human.
Eliska is a Rothschild giraffe, which are classified as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
