Watch: Zookeepers try to corral runaway giraffe at US zoo

Workers at a US zoo needed a couple hours to get an escaped giraffe back into its enclosure.

The seven-month-old female giraffe got loose today from the African Journey exhibit at the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo.

Zoo spokeswoman Bonnie Kemp said the giraffe didn't get off the property.

Staffers were able to corral the giraffe in a fenced parking lot in a non-public area of the zoo.

Zookeepers worked on calming the animal before returning it to the enclosure. It wasn't immediately clear how the youngest in the zoo's nine-giraffe herd escaped.

The zoo just opened to the public for the season on Saturday.