A cute baby giraffe is being hand-reared by keepers after his mother rejected him.
The male Rothschild's calf was born last week at Paignton Zoo in Devon and is being bottle-fed by keepers - drinking between four and six litres of gold-top milk a day.
Staff do not know why the calf's mother Janica rejected him.
Senior keeper Craig Gilchrist said: "He has taken milk from us, he is getting the hang of it and mammal keepers Helen Neighbour and Jim Dicks are doing the feeding.
"He is separated from the group but can see them all, for the first few days it is important to keep him separate to allow him to bond with the keepers so he feels comfortable enough to feed from them.
"As soon as possible he will be reintroduced to the herd so he doesn't forget he is a giraffe."
Hand-rearing a giraffe is a lot of extra work and commitment for the keepers and the zoo is going to get through a lot of milk over the next few months.
Mr Gilchrist said: "At the moment we need about four to six litres of gold-top milk each day.
"He will take in around 10% of his body weight in milk each day and gain weight just as quickly. As he grows, so will his milk requirements.
"He is fed four times a day and could need milk for up to nine months. We will start weaning him when he is around five to six months, depending how he gets on."
The calf stands nearly 6ft (1.8m) tall at birth. The gestation period for a giraffe is between 400 and 460 days.
The mother gives birth standing up with the fall breaking the umbilical cord. Within a few hours the calf can stand and run.
The calf's father Yoda came from Givskud Zoo in Denmark and Janica moved to Devon from Duvr Kralove Zoo in the Czech Republic.
Neil Bemment, the zoo's curator of mammals, said: "At this stage we don't know why Janica has rejected him.
"Giraffe mothers are fickle beasts. Sometimes they will rear their calves, sometimes they won't.
"For example, Janica reared her first, Tonda, who is now the breeding bull at Chessington Zoo, Surrey, but declined to rear her second Valentino, who was successfully hand-reared by the keepers, reintroduced to the family group and is now in Port Lympne Zoo, Kent."
The zoo's other adult female is Sangha, who came from Liberec Zoo, also in the Czech Republic.
The other youngsters at the Zoo are Otilie, who was born in September 2012, and Joanna, born in January 2014, both to mother Sangha, and Eliska, born in January last year to Janica.