Giraffe Maeve, at Dublin Zoo, with her new female calf which was born on November 4 but spent the first few weeks of her life indoors to stop her fragile legs slipping in the snow and ice in the sub-zero temperatures. She made her first public appearance yesterday. The yet unnamed calf, stands at just under two metres and weighs 40 kilos. Helen Clarke-Bennet, team leader of the African Plains, said: “The calf is doing very well and we are delighted to see her first-time mum is being very attentive and is nurturing her newborn with great care.”