Sign up for our free Sentinel email E-ditions to get the latest news directly in your inbox.
The Sentinel not only cares deeply about bringing our readers accurate and critical news, we insist all of the crucial stories we provide are available for everyone — for free.
Like you, we know how critical accurate and dependable information and facts are in making the best decisions about, well, everything that matters. Factual reporting is crucial to a sound democracy, a solid community and a satisfying life.
So there’s no paywall at SentinelColorado.com. Our print editions are free on stands across the region, and our daily email E-ditions are free just for signing up, to anyone.
But we need your help to carry out this essential mission.
Please help us keep the Sentinel different and still here when you need us, for everyone. Join us now, and thank you.
This recent photo provided by the Southwick's Zoo shows newborn giraffe "Dolly" with Luke Weatherhead, curator at the zoo, in Mendon, Mass. The zoo's newest addition is a pretty big baby, she was born about two weeks ago, is nearly 6 feet tall and weighs close to 150 pounds. (Betsey Brewer/Southwick Zoo photo via AP)
This recent photo provided by the Southwick’s Zoo shows newborn giraffe “Dolly” with Luke Weatherhead, curator at the zoo, in Mendon, Mass. The zoo’s newest addition is a pretty big baby, she was born about two weeks ago, is nearly 6 feet tall and weighs close to 150 pounds. (Betsey Brewer/Southwick Zoo photo via AP)
This recent photo provided by the Southwick’s Zoo shows newborn giraffe “Dolly” with Luke Weatherhead, curator at the zoo, in Mendon, Mass. The zoo’s newest addition is a pretty big baby, she was born about two weeks ago, is nearly 6 feet tall and weighs close to 150 pounds. (Betsey Brewer/Southwick Zoo photo via AP)
MENDON, Mass. | The Southwick Zoo’s newest addition is a pretty big baby.
Dolly the giraffe was born two weeks ago, and at 6 feet tall and 150 pounds, she’s the largest of her species ever to be born in the history of the Mendon zoo.
The zoo says Dolly is being fed with a bottle because her mother was unable to produce her own milk. She made her public debut during Earth Awareness Day festivities on Saturday.
Dr. Peter Brewer, the zoo’s veterinarian, said Dolly won’t be reintroduced to her mother for another month.
The Associated Press is an independent, not-for-profit news cooperative of 1,300 newspapers, including The Sentinel, headquartered in New York City. News teams in over 100 countries tell the world’s...
More by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS