ZSL Whipsnade Zoo elephant and rhino births at whipsnade

Zoo_Boy on the WAZA website it says male Indian rhino have up to 8cm long lower incisor teeth which are used in fighting and can inflict deep wounds. With the weight they have behind them and those sort of teeth i bet they can.
 
If you want to know more about the Indian rhino you could aways email the keepers at the San Deigo wild animal park in the USA they have the worlds largest captive herd, I think they have about 15 of them or more now.
 
Indian Rhinos -wow!

Have seen Indian Rhinos in may Indian zoos - sadly the zoos are not breeding or even seem interested, their main goal is display only. The only Indian 'wild' area left for Rhino is in the Assam region and is really now home to terrorist camps and quite dangerous to go into - sad really.

I am very passionate about raising awareness for the Asian Rhino status and would so very much like to see Australia put their hand up to be part of a significant breeding program.

Are any members aware of the 'Kadimakara' project being tossed around some time back in QLD?
Anyway go the rhino!
 
Hi there inthewild, So glad to have another Rhino fan here and i agree with what you say about Australia taking a bigger part in the breeding Asian rhinos.

Do you have any rhino pics from the Indian zoos that you went too?.
Welcome to the forum and GO the rhinos.
 
MARK said:
Zoo_Boy on the WAZA website it says male Indian rhino have up to 8cm long lower incisor teeth which are used in fighting and can inflict deep wounds. With the weight they have behind them and those sort of teeth i bet they can.
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When fighting they normally only use the lower insicor teeth, never the single horn(which is probably quite delicate). Its done with a quick upward thrust of the head, and can leave a nasty gash in the victim. I think elephants are nervous of them for that reason -though in Kaziranga the tourist eles seem to have a good relationship with the (same?) rhinos which they see probably each time they go out with tourists.

Rhinos will also chase jeeps and other vehicles. I've had this happen in Kaziranga- it is very nerve-wracking as the rhino can, when its got up speed to a canter, go faster than the jeep... Usually they veer off to one side during the chase but accidents have happened where they attack and overturn vehicles on occassions. If people are hurt or killed its usually from the crash rather than the rhino actually pursuing a deliberate attack on people.
Yet in captivity they can become extremely docile, some(e.g. Whipsnade's first bull Mohan) allowing themselves to be ridden on.
 
Inthewild said:
The only Indian 'wild' area left for Rhino is in the Assam region
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actually there is a population of about 50 still in a preserve in west bengal - thats where i saw the species. there is another very small little known preserve that i know of that has (re-introduced i think) rhino that from memory is more west. can't remember though....
 
Thats right Pat, the new preserve has about ten rhinos that were re-introduced and they have had their first birth resently, I think it was on the National geo website, I think they are going to transplant more animals there at some time.
 
Its run by a French guy. He keeps it very up to date. He also has a related french website about zoos called 'leszoosdanslemonde'
 
orang09 said:
and regards to whipsnade elephants azziah is pregnant and there are plans ahead to accept a new female asian elephant ( from spain i think )
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Any further details on when the new elephant is expected at Whipsnade, or its age or anything?
 
what apart from azziah ???? they6 are trying to breeed their ellies as they are so rare so fingers crossed for more calves so anyone have updates about any further pregnacies ?
 
just pulled an interesting article out of one of the Sydney Weekend magazines. its about the status of both Thailand's wild and working elephants. whilst the debate surrounding zoo elephants continues with little sign of slwoing down clearly the clock is ticking for the thai elephants, and whilst everyone could appreciate that the wild is the best place for an elephants, im having a hard time accepting that working elephants are bette roff in thai work camps than they are in zoos (in terms of a black and white argument, i just dont think sweeping statements that elephants are best off in the wild or in thailand and not in zoos are correct). as allegations about elephants being drugged, abused and rampant cruelty towards the elephants come to light i think it makes the future of the elephant look that bit more bleak.
latest estimates from thailand are 2000 wild and 2000 captive with the captive stock in some areas declining rapidly.
 
Pertinax said:
I THINK that there is a 2nd rhino(the other Nepal female) and elephant still pregnant- that's presuming they haven't had any unsuccessful births- which they don't announce publicly.

The older female Indian rhino 'Roopa' is probably well past breeding age now- it was she who had the last calf seventeen years ago! (I think she had four during her breeding years) and I'd doubt they would try to breed from her again now. One of her sons 'Gaidi' is a breeding male at Berlin Zoo.
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Is Roopa now deceased ... as only 2.3 have been listed for the past 1 or 2 months now ....?
 
Looks as though she might be, I only saw the two females with their offspring and the male when I visited recently. Their enclosure is quite badly designed I think, as at least one (pair most of the time) ends up either locked in one of those tiny yards or in the old exhibits which are completely empty with no pools. Seems weird that they didn't design it with the largest paddock split into 2 so all the pairs could use the new house and still get access to the large paddocks.
 
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