Indian great rhino

Old news-paper photo. Mother Maharadja with her first young. Maharadja was born herself in captivity and this should have been the first second generation birth of this species in captivity. Middle November 1976

Indian Great Hornbill

Must be moulting.

Sure it's not a rhinoceros hornbill?

Oeps.. ! Must have had a complete black-out by writing the name wrong ( or to be honest.... I don't know the difference ! )

Indian....

A useful identification feature is how well it can fly. Hornbills do this significantly better than Rhinos.

The funny thing is that in Dutch all hornbills are called "Rhino-birds" ( neushoornvogels )

vogelcommando said:

Maharadja was born herself in captivity and this should have been the first second generation birth of this species in captivity. Middle November 1976

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Does it say where the mother was born? I believe San Diego's male was 'Lasai' who was born at Basel, so it would have been second generation on both sides.

vogelcommando said:

Old news-paper photo. Mother Maharadja with her first young. Maharadja was born herself in captivity and this should have been the first second generation birth of this species in captivity. Middle November 1976

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Pertinax said:

Does it say where the mother was born? I believe San Diego's male was 'Lasai' who was born at Basel, so it would have been second generation on both sides.

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According to both the Indian Rhinoceros Studbook and the book “The Rhinoceros in Captivity” (Rookmaaker; 1998) “Maharaja” was the name of the short-lived Indian rhino born in San Diego Wild Animal Park in October 1976, not the name of the mother.

According to both of these sources, the young rhino’s parents were:-

• male “Lasai” born Basle in 1962 (as “Pertinax” mentioned)
• female “Jaypuri” born Assam in 1963

Thank you for this information Tim May ! The text with the newspaper article was also quite wrong ( but that would not be the first time ! ).