After several weeks of no Rhino births announced officially, today we can share news of three new Rhino calves! For two of them we have not many info to share since very few has been said, so we’ll try our best to give you the most out of our resources!
Let’s start with a birth that occurred far away from us, in Vietnam. At Vinpearl Safari on Phu Quoc Island a Southern White Rhino girl was born on 30 March 2020. She is the 27th member of the crash, there, making Vinpearl Safari the Facility that has one of the greatest number of Southern White Rhinos outside Africa – maybe, just one or two Facility in North America could compete with Vinpearl, but unfortunately we can’t be more precise since these Facility do not share info on their Rhinos -. Nothing is known about the calf’s parents: we only know that the little girl has been called Winnie and she is still in a private box with her mum since Winnie is described as very shy! According to this video, Winnie’s got two older siblings, a female and a male, two rhino babies born last year that we also listed in our 2019 chart. Now, we know that the male has been called “Ca Phe”, which means “coffee” in Vietnamese.
Another birth occurred in San Diego Safari Park, in California. The Indian Rhino group grow up by one, with Asha‘s second calf, a male. Again, very few is known, neither it is the baby date of birts: “in the last two weeks” says the ermetic post on the Safari Facebook page. The new calf’s dad should be, as usual, the resident male Bhopu, that has contributed to the Indian Rhino metapopulation in North America, with at least 19 calves sired. Maybe, is it time for him to take a break and give some other male less genetically represented a chance to reproduce? We hope so. At the moment his last calf and the mom will stay close to each other for at least two years.
Last calf, but not the least, is a male Southern White rhino just born in Copenaghen (DK). Mom Minna gave birth to her fourth calf (and third in Denmark in a row) without problem. As you can see in the video posted in the zoo Facebook page: a quick labour then the baby was out and began to breath independently. As many of you already know Minna’s partner Curt (or Oscar as he is referred in the studbook) died last year because of an autoimmune disease after many weeks of struggling. While his very first calf with Minna, Pilan, died few weeks prior to him, his second calf Berg is still at the zoo, where he will probably meet his new full-brother in the weeks to come. There is another Curt’s calf, a male – we do not know his name yet – born in January 2018 to the other breeding female, Zuri, who is believed to be pregnant, too.
