ZSL Whipsnade Zoo UK zookeepers successfully hand-rear baby rhino

[Shamwari Voice]

Some lovely news about zookeepers at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire who have successful hand-reared a baby rhino through her first precarious after a traumatic birth prevented her from suckling. She's now been named Miracle.

How zoo keepers won their battle to keep a baby rhino alive, and then called her Miracle | Mail Online

I love this!

 

[Pertinax]

I guess she would not have survived this traumatic (breech) delivery if she'd been born in the wild.

I think its a good very thing they were able to get her feeding from her mother though as handraised rhinos can be problematic later on if not properly socialised when young- e.g. Black female 'Rosie' at Chester who was handraised at ZSL and as an adult will not accept males.

 

[Kifaru Bwana]

I guess she would not have survived this traumatic (breech) delivery if she'd been born in the wild.

I think its a good very thing they were able to get her feeding from her mother though as handraised rhinos can be problematic later on if not properly socialised when young- e.g. Black female 'Rosie' at Chester who was handraised at ZSL and as an adult will not accept males.

In this case medical intervention was required for a very valuable calf. Thankfully, the reason that instigated this was not a rejection by the mother, but merely the critical condition of the calf in question. She has now been re-united with her mother and - as I understand it - she is suckling from her.

 

[MARK]

Great out come and yet another baby IR for Whipsnade, wow

 

[Jordan-Jaguar97]

She wasn't officially hand-reared as after a few days she was back with her mother Beluki