Jackson enjoys his mud bath. It was very unuassly for a zoo in the times, to offer rhinos a water pool or a mudhole, but this is very important for them.Maybe its one resaon, Jackson and Begum lived that long at the zoo.
Digressing somewhat, a Sumatran rhinoceros was born onboard a ship in the Victoria Docks, London, on 7th December 1872. (Its mother was on route for America.) This calf did not live for long; it would be interesting to know what happened to it. Perhaps it is in a museum somewhere?
I have heard about that. I have a feeling I've either seen, or seen a photo of, a baby Sumatran rhino calf in a museum- Nat His at Kensington- or maybe Tring?
@Pertinax There is a baby Sumatran Rhino in a case next to an adult at South Kensington in the mammal hall as well as one at AMNH in NYC next to its mother.
