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“It’s imminent,” says Jordan Patch, who owns the Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, N.Y. April, a 15-year-old giraffe, is to give birth at most any time, so the park was live-streaming video from April’s pen on Youtube so people could watch. But the video suddenly went dark: Youtube yanked it off the air due to “sexual content” and lack of clothing. Really. Patch says “a handful of extremists and animal activists” had complained. “By kicking our livestream offline, you have literally removed an educational tool and you have harmed the species survival more than you could ever recognize,” Patch complained on Facebook. That led to a massive uproar, which caused April’s fame to go viral — and Youtube quickly restored the feed. As of this writing, the 150-pound, 6-foot-tall, baby has not arrived. (RC/AP) ...They should have named her March, then.