Black rhinos in Europe

jelle said:
Bull Baringo has left Port Lympne to Dvur Kralove to be mated with experienced cows Elba and Jessi.
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Kingo who has just arrived from Paignton back at Port Lympne, and Baringo(2nd)) who has just left for Dvur are full brothers. My guess is (this) Baringo doesn't breed otherwise why would PL bother to bring back his fullbrother (the proven) Kingo?

My records show no calves fathered by Baringo 2nd at Port Lympne.(He was also at Chester for a while) If he didn't breed with any of the females at either place, I imagine he's rather unlikely to elsewhere either.:(
 
Jelle, do I understand it correct that a second female in Chester -Emma - is pregnant right now? That would be great news!!!!
 
Yassa said:
Jelle, do I understand it correct that a second female in Chester -Emma - is pregnant right now? That would be great news!!!!
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Its Pertinax but yes- I've heard this too. The sire is presumably 'Magadi' whom she had been kept with, in which case the two calves when born will be entirely unrelated. It also means Chester have three proven bulls now.
 
Yassa said:
Jelle, do I understand it correct that a second female in Chester -Emma - is pregnant right now? That would be great news!!!!
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Yassa, the first news of this was posted on the "AGM" thread in the Chester Zoo sub-forum. This news was from what I understand was mention in the AGM that happened this week.

Therefore, this is official confirmed pregnancy from my stance.

Just one other thing its Ema that is pregnant not emma as she died a few years back.

Also while am here, it was mention that chester were to recieve another female, has this happened? Or is this now prosponed due to two female that are due to give birth, leaving little room for another female?
 
Great news about the second Chester pregnancy, but the only downside will be that Ema's calf probably won't be visible that often ;)
 
CZJimmy said:
Great news about the second Chester pregnancy, but the only downside will be that Ema's calf probably won't be visible that often ;)
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Am just glad the breeding for black rhinos at chester seems to of kicked into gear finally! Its only been ten years since the last birth :eek:

Hopefully some of the other females will follow suit :D
 
The youngish pregnant cow is Ema (not Emma of old) and originates also from Dvur Kralove Zoo. The sire IS Magadi - a new breeding male for the programme (a second after Sammy ......)!!! :D

This is all official.
 
This time actually a pre-posting: Doue la Fontaine will receive another female Eastern black rhino Diceros bicornis michaeli soon. The chosen candidate is female Tisa ex Koelner Zoo who has been reluctant to mate and is incompatible with the local bull Taco.

This means that next to full grown male Kata Kata, bullish Jeremy and young cow (and perhaps now attaining sexual maturity at 5) a second potential breeding pair will be formed (I suppose the bull Kata Kata is destined to be Tisa's suitor).

The transfer is still under some wraps, but will happen end of this month.
 
jelle said:
I suppose the bull Kata Kata is destined to be Tisa's suitor.

The transfer is still under some wraps, but will happen end of this month.
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Lets hope that 'Kata Kata' will breed successfully. He and his sister 'Rosie' at Chester are the only surviving offspring of the exWhipsnade/London/Port Lympne pair Bwaqna Mkubwa & Mama Kidogo and neither yet have produced any offspring themselves. As they're having big problems getting 'Rosie' to breed, bull 'Kata Kata' is genetically an important animal.
 
I'm just putting it out there but how heavy are Black Rhino Bulls in Captivity, in europe? Do they have a new breed standard of physical measurements compared to thw wild like some other species, or are they pretty much the same?
 
Quinto moves to Port Lympne.

Mature bull 'Quinto' has apparently recently moved from Chester Zoo to Port Lympne. This is a good move in my opinion, as there are more breeding opportunities there and PL are in need of another breeding bull at the present time.
 
Quinto settles in?

'Quinto' moved to Port Lympne from Chester about a month ago now. He is having a bit of a problem settling down and is still very nervous of his enclosure and reluctant to go into his paddock for very long. The keeper told me he isn't scent marking or showing any territorial behaviour yet,either, which in their experience is unusual for a new bull arriving there. However they are hopeful his confidence will improve when he is run with females.

Kingo, the other mature bull which returned from Paignton Zoo a few months ago, is now settled and living with two females(sorry, can't remember names:()
 
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taun said:
Do you know which females he we be introduced too?
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I think he mentioned the names but there are so many I can't remember. It can be any of those which are related to their only other mature bull 'Kingo', who was born there, so there's a choice of several. I think they want to give him more time to settle in though as they are a bit concerned about how nervous he is and what he might do if he suddenly panicked (like smash the fence down!)
He looked rather sorry for himself, wandering around giving pathetic little squeaks. A keeper was 'baby minding' with him to make sure he was okay.
 
Pertinax said:
Kingo, the other mature bull which returned from Paignton Zoo a few months ago, is now settled and living with two females(sorry, can't remember names:()
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So he has contact with them all the time? If I remember correctly, while at Paignton he and Sita were usually kept apart. You didn't happen to ask the keeper why Kingo and Sita had different skin textures, did you?:)
 
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