Manor House Wildlife Park Rhinos

lechweoryx

lechweoryx

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After watching wild welsh zoo I learn't that they were ment to be getting Rhinos. Does anyone know whats happened to that idea? Also they talked about how much they cost. I thought zoos don't pay for their animals, especialy threatened ones as zoos may not be able to afford them and the animals won't get conserved.
 
They do have to pay for them when they don`t come from a zoo,these Rhinos will be come from a South African Big Game Park hence they have to pay for them,if they got them from a zoo they would be placed on-loan to Manor House.
 
For those of you that can't view ITV Wales the last program broadcast last Friday 9/12/2011 had a preview of the next episode. This showed Anne meeting one of the new white rhino's for manor house. The enclosure was clearly Colchester zoos white rhino paddock. This is to be shown in January.
 
So it has been confirmed as Zamba?

Another male who could be in contention to move to Manor house is Zimba at South Lakes it would make sense as South Lakes recently had a male calf bringing their numbers up to 4:3:0.
 
All I know is what I saw at the end of the program. And all it implies is that a rhino is coming from Colchester. Everything else you've said about Zamba is a assumption Jordon.
 
The rhinos should arrive in May 2012.

The two have been confirmed as Zamba (Born 2008 at South Lakes, Tala X Mazungo) and Zimba (Born 2009 at Colchester, Cynthia X Simba).
 
I think you mean Zimba and Zamba ;) Fingers crossed they will get along...
 
I watched the episode of the ITV programme showing Anna R-R spending a day at Colchester working with the Rhinos and other stock in the same house . Much time was spent making silly noises towards Zamba ( the good lady does annoy me ! ) . Work had commenced converting the barn previously used for Bison into a Rhino House , not surprisingly this is going to cost quite a lot .

The final episode featured the birth of a Camel , mother and baby had to be separated from the father who was getting a bit pushy . A baby Tapir was also born , but did not survive as the mother was very young .
 
A rhino herd is known as a 'crash'

A rhino calf will stay with its mother until she has another calf, that is when she will reject it.
 
OrangePerson said:
It was the phrase "hopefully they'd eventually be driven out by the herd." that threw me!
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I think what he meant was that these two young males are being moved about the time they would be driven out of their natal herds. I'm not sure that's quite the case but they are two young bulls surplus to the zoos they are at, and old enough to leave, while Manor House want them, so 'everyone's a winner'.

They just need a third one named 'Zomba'(or Zemba or Zumba) to complete the trio...:)
 
As Paulkarli08 says the mother will reject her current calf when a new one is born so that she can devote her time to raise it as best she can without the interference of the other calf which will be at least 18-20 months old at this stage, and be big enough and old enough to look after itself hopefully.
In zoos there is often the need to carry out a 'forced' separation undertaken by their keepers. The keepers will remove the mature calf from the expectant mother before she gives birth to the baby for safety reasons (don't want rhinos getting aggressive if it can be avoided!). In the wild however the mother will reject her older calf once the new calf is born, by chasing it away and showing threatening behaviour to it, this older calf may remain in the crash but will tend to keep a distance from its mother and possibly (not always) 'hang around' with another mature female for a few years.

Little rhino fact you may notice at zoos - white rhino calves tend to walk in front of their mother and black rhino calves tend to walk behind their mother.
 
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