Giraffe's baby gives zoo a financial bump

April the giraffe has brought a bundle of joy to a small zoo in rural New York, thanks to a YouTube livestream of her pregnancy and birth of a calf that riveted viewers around the world.

Owners of the Animal Adventure Park have not said exactly how much additional revenue they have enjoyed from the publicity surrounding April, but internet marketing experts conservatively estimate the haul to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.