Giraffe Neckbirth

I was visiting a zoo I've been to before in my dreams, and there was a giraffe giving birth in a most peculiar manner. Where you might expect a healthy calf to emerge from the usual place, in this instance there was a great to-do amongst the staff as they tried to wrestle the unruly beast to the ground and safely deliver its young. Strong did the legs kick out, in throes of what I assumed was considerable agony. I watched with my daughter, as the giraffe hoisted its neck up high to silhouette against the sky, a spidery network of smaller legs, squirming like tentacles. They erupted from the neck, bursting from a swollen tumour. The zookeepers were working hard to placate bewildered onlookers and safeguard their reputation as a humane zoo. But there was no disguising the fact that the giraffe was giving birth from her neck.