It's Saturday night and 75,000 people are watching the giraffe livestream

Nothing to see here, sadly.
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Alex Hazlett
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Let's get this out of the way first. No, April the giraffe hasn't given birth to her calf yet.

However, more than 75,000 people have nothing better to do at 7:00pm on Saturday than wait around and watch, just in case.

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We're not sure whether this moves us to hope or despair for the state of the world. Either way, it'd really be great if April's bundle of joy got this party started.

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Alex Hazlett

Alex Hazlett is a Deputy Managing Editor at Mashable. Based out of Mashable's New York HQ, she previously ran the company's weekend coverage, oversaw the in-house syndication program, and was an assistant editor for general news. Ask her about newsletters.An Ohio native, Alex earned degrees in economics and journalism at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. During college, she also spent time in the Middle East studying Arabic and journalism.

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