A rare baby okapi has been born at Chester Zoo. The “precious” calf was born to mum Ada and dad Stomp, following a 14-month pregnancy. Zoo keeper Jade Miner said the animal is "really rare" and the zoo is "very lucky" to welcome the calf. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
00:00Carpi are really rare. They're believed to be between 3,000 and 15,000 in the wild and they weren't discovered until 1901.
00:07It's really special. We're really lucky. A lot of this stuff happens at night. They're very elusive, a carpi.
00:11So to actually see the camera footage is lovely. It gives us a real insight to what's going on and they are really rare so there's not a lot of footage of this around.
00:18They've been a really lovely relationship. We haven't had a boy in a while so it's been nice seeing her really dote on having a little son.
00:23And he's been really ready to go. As babies go they can be quite quiet and elusive and he's probably been one of our bounciest yet.
