Lacey, from Basingstoke, doodled a giraffe when she was seven years old and was pretty proud of her work. So she couldn’t understand why her mum Kelly, 35, found it so funny.

Strode said that more than 3,100 votes were tallied during the naming process, with Zara drawing almost a quarter of those votes. When the campaign was announced, Strode and other zoo officials ...

The modern giraffe, found in sub-Saharan Africa, is the world's tallest living land animal, with males up to 18 feet (5.5 meters) tall and females up to 14 feet (4.3 meters) tall.