While hundreds of thousands of people were glued to the viral live stream of April, a giraffe in upstate New York about to give birth any minute now, a Denver giraffe quietly birthed her own little one, to the surprise of pretty much everyone.

Staff at the Denver Zoo had no idea their 23-year-old giraffe named Kipele was pregnant until very recently — in addition to being zoo’s oldest giraffe, she was also on birth control at the time of her impregnation.

But early Tuesday morning, Kipele went into labor, delivering a male calf, which zoo officials named Dobby.

“Dobby may not have been a planned birth, but now that he’s here, we’re excited to have him and look forward to him engaging with our guests,” said Brian Aucone, Denver Zoo senior vice president for animal care and conservation in a statement.

Dobby’s understated arrival happened as the rest of the country’s animal-loving population anxiously awaits April’s delivery at the Animal Adventure Park Zoo in Harpursville, NY. The excitement reached a fever pitch last week, when the live feed of her pen was briefly yanked off YouTube after animal rights activists complained that the video contained “nudity and sexual content.”

“There’s a handful of extremists and animal rights activists that may not agree with us and that’s OK,” said zoo owner Jordan Patch in a Facebook video addressing the shutdown. “What this has done is pulled an educational tool away from tens of millions of individuals. We’re further harming the species of giraffes.”

The feed was reinstated the morning of Feb. 23.

Dobby could use some of the attention being directed at April’s unborn calf — at 5 feet tall and weighing 73 pounds, Dobby was on the small side for a newborn giraffe and had difficulty nursing at first. Veterinarians at the zoo had to give him a plasma infusion to help fight infection, too.

Aucone said Denver Zoo officials are “feeling good” about Dobby’s recovery but that the giraffe building will remain closed during the mother and baby’s first days together to provide them peace and quiet — in other words, away from the kind of viral frenzy April has attracted.

The zoo did post a video of Dobby’s transfusion, though, which shows some of his first wobbly steps in his enclosure.