London, Dec. 27.
The festive season was marked at the Zoological Gardens by the birth of a female chimpanzee, named Noel, en Christmas Day, and at the Whip-stade Zoological Park by the birth of a giraffe, on Boxing Day. The giraffe, believed to be a female and not yet named, is five feet, two inches in height. It is the fir giraffe to be born in and since 1914. Both mothers and ba doing well.—Reuter
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