• Webcam fan notices baby rhino birth, takes action
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[url=http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100204/tuk-webcam-fan-notices-baby-rhino-birth-6323e80.html]Source[/url] [quote]Safari park staff in Scotland were alerted that one of their animals was giving birth by someone watching webcam footage thousands of miles away, it has emerged. Dorothy, a southern white rhino, was spotted going into labour by an animal lover in Cyprus in December. The viewer quickly contacted Blair Drummond Safari Park near Stirling to let them know - and within minutes baby Ailsa had arrived in the world. The six-week-old calf ventured out of her heated house for the first time on Thursday morning. It was previously too cold for the rhino to wander into the covered outdoor enclosure used by the rest of her family. Born on December 21, Ailsa is the latest addition to a small family of the breed at the wildlife park. Ailsa joined ten-year-old Dorothy on an excursion around the enclosure with her keepers. She happily ran around the area and was given weight and health checks by keeper Ailsa West, who she was named after. As she is still very young, she will not be fully mixed with the rest of the herd for a few months. Her parents, Graham and Dorothy, already have one calf - Mazumba - but they bred again as part of a European programme to boost the species population and widen the rhino gene pool.[/quote] [img]http://www.ruggedelegantliving.com/a/images/baby.rhino.jpg[/img]
:3: Awww
Slow news day?
I'm going there in a few weeks I will get to see it!
[QUOTE=Dr Bob;20027087]Graham and Dorothy, already have one calf - Mazumba - but they bred again [/QUOTE] i bet those were some horny rhinos
Webcam heroes.
I live near Blair Drummond Safari Park. :neckbeard:
It was then immediately killed and harvested for aphrodisiacs.
No-lifer life-saver.
Actually the future generation was then breed for their horns.. Free bones Y'know.
Why isolate it from the others, it isn't like they'll be hostile towards it... Also, it looks kinda :downs: [editline]10:05PM[/editline] [QUOTE=SinjinOmega;20028331]Actually the future generation was then breed for their horns.. Free bones Y'know.[/QUOTE] Ivory actually iirc.
That thing is as ugly as sin, I'm sorry to say.
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