Today, as many already know, is World Rhino Day! As of tradition, a lot of news came out from Zoos during this day. We try to collect all of them and update all of the pages on this website, but this wouldn’t be possible without the help of many of you from all over the world. We are deeply grateful to each of our Teammate and thanking you is never enough!
Our gorgeous Teammate Cooper Y. is doing an enormous job collecting information for the website about Rhinos in Japan. Thanks to her precise responses, we are day by day compiling the IDs of White Rhinos and the page of Japanese Zoo.
We are also deeply thankful to Teammate Harish S., from San Diego, that provided us with precious information on the Southern White Rhino crash at San Diego Safari Park. We can now say that the female calf born to mum Kacy on 23 July has received the name Alice and that her dad is not Maoto, as we thought, but rhino J.Gregory! Also, one of the other adult female rhino, Holly, has given birth few weeks ago to a healthy male calf! We cannot say who is his dad, but we’ll find out!
Our Teammate Robyn N.G. is providing pictures of Jamie’s baby in Tampa Lowry, and assures us that all the Rhinos, included young Kayin are doing great!
Apart from the many transfers among the Rhinos in the world, which we tried to keep track of everyone of them, we can announce more pregnancies.
At Taronga Western Plains Zoo, the female Southern Black Rhino that is expecting the calf is Bakhita, who is going to be a fourth-time mum. Her calf, who is due to arrive early next year, will be the last calf for male Kwanza, that sadly passed away early this year, according to the Official release.
At Virginia Safari Park, the big crash of seven Southern White Rhinos is going to welcome two more calves in the fall. Females Samira and Kya will welcome both their third calf. And, if this is not enough, Disney’s Animal Kingdom announced that not one, not two, but three (!) White Rhinos are expecting a calf! For Kendi, the experienced one, the pregnancy should term in October this years; for first-time mum Jao it will end in 2021 and for Lola, who never calved before, too, is going to be a bit longer, with her calf expected to arrive between fall and winter 2021! The proud dad is male Dugan, who arrived from Erie Zoological Gardens (USA) two years ago. His move has been providential! We don’t know if it has been a natural mating or artificial insemination, but it is the result that matter.
If we left behind something, we apologize, but we can’t stop say Thanks to all of you that are contacting us, giving and often asking questions that we are very happy to answer (if we can, of course!).
