(CNN) Five children are enough for internet celebrity April the giraffe, and the 17-year-old is ready to go on birth control.

Well, that's what her caretakers say.

Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, New York, posted a video on Facebook Thursday announcing that one of their most popular animals will be retiring from the propagation program.

"It is a great celebration of her because she has certainly done her purpose, and that is to produce some beautiful, healthy calves in her lifetime," said Jordan Patch in the video.

She fulfilled her purpose, indeed. The mother has had her hands full with five baby giraffes --which are usually born six feet tall and weighing 100 to 150 pounds -- over the course of her lifetime.

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