Watch as a baby giraffe at Chester Zoo takes her first steps outside

The calf was named Karamoja, after the region in Uganda where the rare Rothschild’s subspecies still lives in the wild.

(Chester Zoo)

By Emily Chudy, Press Association

A baby Rothschild’s giraffe has stepped outside for the first time since she was born on May 8.

The calf was named Karamoja, after the region in Uganda where the rare and endangered subspecies still lives in the wild.