North Carolina Zoo Second Surprise Rhino Birth at NC Zoo in 2 weeks

The main herd in the savanna is 1 bull, 4 cows and the 2 calfs. Behind the scenes is a 1.2 acre yard for (1,1) older rhinos. The older bull Stan arrived in 1987. The older female Olivia also arrived in 1987. She is 50 years old this year.

Caroline was born at the NC Zoo in 1977. In 1988 she went to Knoxville. In 2000 she went to fossil rim. Here is the 2011 white rhino studbook http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/pdf_files/140/1409008711.pdf
 
Thanks so much forwarding the White Rhino Studbook... Guess you are affiliated with the NC Zoo, thus being a zoo professional? I live at Carolina Trace south of Sanford NC, now in retirement. Spent 35 years in the zoo business, as director at zoos in Albuquerque and Atlanta. Still love keeping in touch and visiting zoos. Will study this studbook, do you also have access to the Black Rhino studbook, which might allow me to check on the rhinos and other animals my company transported during the 1970's...Moved several Black and many White Rhinos. Anyway, really appreciate your information and knowledge.
 
Bwana Hans said:
Thanks so much forwarding the White Rhino Studbook... Guess you are affiliated with the NC Zoo, thus being a zoo professional? I live at Carolina Trace south of Sanford NC, now in retirement. Spent 35 years in the zoo business, as director at zoos in Albuquerque and Atlanta. Still love keeping in touch and visiting zoos. Will study this studbook, do you also have access to the Black Rhino studbook, which might allow me to check on the rhinos and other animals my company transported during the 1970's...Moved several Black and many White Rhinos. Anyway, really appreciate your information and knowledge.
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Im just an ordinary visitor to the NC Zoo. I enjoy going to the zoo in my free time, about once a month. The current black rhino studbook is here. Yet it does not include historical records. Potentially you may find them in one of the documents in the same database I linked. Its got a nice amount of documents on captive rhinos.
 
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Im just an ordinary visitor to the NC Zoo. I enjoy going to the zoo in my free time, about once a month. The current black rhino studbook is here. Yet it does not include historical records. Potentially you may find them in one of the documents in the same database I linked. Its got a nice amount of documents on captive rhinos.
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Just glanced through the Black Rhino Studbook of 2013 you sent. Must find out how often these are updated. Will also spend a bit more time checking both the White and now the Black Rhino studbooks. Have you had a chance to view my photo website? You would enjoy seeing the many photos taken at each location I visited, here is how to open my photo albums on John Roth. When I visit NC Zoo usually go there on a week day, not weekends, and then spend a couple to three hours during an afternoon cruising around with my cameras at hand. Never encountered any animal staff in the public areas, guess they spend all their time behind the scenes. Have participated in the behind the scene tour of the elephants barn and facility two years ago, and have an annual member Society Pass, thus receive their quarterly ALIVE magazine. Hope they will make space for Indian Rhinos in the planned Asian Exhibit expansion, and I would like for them to add a good Asian Elephant breeding program. They certainly have lots of undeveloped land areas to create another wonderful elephant habitat.
 
Bwana Hans said:
Just glanced through the Black Rhino Studbook of 2013 you sent. Must find out how often these are updated. Will also spend a bit more time checking both the White and now the Black Rhino studbooks. Have you had a chance to view my photo website? You would enjoy seeing the many photos taken at each location I visited, here is how to open my photo albums on John Roth. When I visit NC Zoo usually go there on a week day, not weekends, and then spend a couple to three hours during an afternoon cruising around with my cameras at hand. Never encountered any animal staff in the public areas, guess they spend all their time behind the scenes. Have participated in the behind the scene tour of the elephants barn and facility two years ago, and have an annual member Society Pass, thus receive their quarterly ALIVE magazine. Hope they will make space for Indian Rhinos in the planned Asian Exhibit expansion, and I would like for them to add a good Asian Elephant breeding program. They certainly have lots of undeveloped land areas to create another wonderful elephant habitat.
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I will check out the website. I have not encountered many keepers as well, unlike at other zoos. Although NC Zoo is rare in that it has a full seperation of pedestrian paths and service roads, so that may explain this. The zoo does have a lot of docents though, several of whom I know after many visits. I have never done a behind the scenes tour, yet would love to do one eventually. A few weeks back I detailed what is known about the zoos Asian and Australian expansions. Asia phase 1 and 2 will be based around tiger, red panda, komodo dragons and many more medium to small species. As of now no field exhibits or hoofstock exhibits are planned. Both of these expansions will not be themed regions with many sections. They will be more of exhibit complexes, at least initially. Other asian species have been axed from the plans as of now such as Orangutan. Asian rhino have never been publicly mentioned, yet I would love them. Potentially in say a phase 3, we could see more grassland species. And Asian elephant are also not mentioned and imo very unlikely. What is more likely though is that once or twice I have heard the zoo mention using some of its extensive acreage for elephant breeding. So we could see an expansion to the African elephant holding eventually.
 
Hello Kifaru Hans, I have been on the road so no way to respond in more detail, still am in fact. Iam generally speaking a nature lover of all. Yes, I do have some focus species of which rhinos are one. My sources start with excellent rhino resourcecenter.com and the book on rhinos worldwide the site administrator published. It is kind of a compendium of sorts.

I will reply by PM when I get back to home base.
 
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