Search Results for 'Rhino'

Ohio zoo: African black rhino dies after illness

POWELL, Ohio -- An Ohio zoo says an African black rhinoceros has died after being treated for an often fatal disease that's commonly found in the species.The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium says the 18-year-old rhino was named Kijito and di [...]

Posted On : Dec, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

White Rhino bundle of joy for Australia Zoo

Weighing in at a hefty 50-60 kilograms, the female baby rhino is the first for the Australia Zoo's breeding program. The calf was born early Tuesday morning and is said to be wrinkly, with big feet and ears. Manu Ludden, Head of Aust [...]

Posted On : Apr, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Baby Rhino to Be Named Tuesday

The newborn eastern black rhino at the Great Plains Zoo and Delbridge Museum of Natural History will get its name Tuesday. The zoo asked people to suggest names - with a $20 donation for each name submitted - and then vote on their fav [...]

Posted On : Dec, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Great Plains Zoo runs contest to name baby rhino

The Great Plains Zoo and Delbridge Museum of Natural History in Sioux Falls is asking people to help name the black rhinoceros calf born last month. Until Nov. 19, people can suggest a name for a $20 donation. From Nov. 20 until Dec. 5, [...]

Posted On : Nov, 05 2010 | Comments : 0

Patna Zoo to see 3 rhino births soon

The second largest rhino population among all the biological parks in the world exists in the Patna Zoo. There are at present six male and as many female rhinos at the Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park. Next year three more are expected. [...]

Posted On : May, 25 2010 | Comments : 0

Czech zoo to return rare white rhinos to wild

Four rare, northern white rhinos, half the known population left in the world, will leave a Czech zoo for Africa on Saturday in a last-ditch bid to save the species from extinction. The Dvur Kralove zoo in northern Czech Republic, will tra [...]

Posted On : Dec, 19 2009 | Comments : 0

Zoo rhino bites hand of employee feeding it

A rhinoceros at the Pittsburgh Zoo smashed the tip of a keeper's thumb as she hand-fed it treats yesterday. "Anybody that has a pet knows that any time you hand-feed an animal treats, occasionally you get little bites," said zoo C [...]

Posted On : Oct, 17 2009 | Comments : 1

Baby white rhino born at Hamilton Zoo Baby white rhino born ...

The Hamilton Zoo has a new addition to the family as Moesha the white rhinoceros has give birth to a baby boy. Hamilton Zoo Director Stephen Standley says the birth of the calf comes as great news as zoo staff were once concerned she would [...]

Posted On : May, 15 2009 | Comments : 0

COELODONTA (Woolly Rhino)

Coelodonta, the woolly rhino, is from the Pleistocene epoch and survived the last ice age. It belongs to the family Rhinocerotids, which includes modern-day rhinos. This plant-eater was about 11 feet (3.5 m) long. It had two horns on its [...]

Posted On : Aug, 03 2007 | Comments : 0

Southern white Rhinoceros calf in Budapest Zoo

Hungary Thursday, June 28, 2007, in Budapest Zoo's 300 kg (660 pound) southern white Rhinoceros calf while feeding her. Budapest Zoo is one of the big and attractive zoo in Europe. Budapest Zoo has more then 5000 animals, which ar [...]

Posted On : Jul, 01 2007 | Comments : 0

Black Rhinoceros

Native to the grasslands of Africa, they live in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Namibia, and Kenya, The Black Rhino is highly endangered. There are only about 2,500 Black Rhinos left in the wild. In 1970, there were about 65,000. Unfortu [...]

Posted On : May, 21 2007 | Comments : 0

White Rhinoceros

Ceratotherium simum Endangered Next to the elephant, the white rhino is the largest land mammal and can weigh up to 3.6 metric tons. Its two horns are positioned one behind the other and its thick hi [...]

Posted On : May, 18 2007 | Comments : 0

Poachers Kill India's 4 Rare Rhinos

INDIA - Kaziranga National Park – Poachers pose a renewed threat to rare and endangered species of rhinoceros when they killed four of them in a reserve in northeast India recently. Four one- horned rhinos were killed at the Kaziran [...]

Posted On : Mar, 22 2007 | Comments : 0

Sumatran Rhinoceros of the Los Angeles Zoo arrives in Indone...

The first Sumatran rhinoceros was moved from the Los Angeles Zoo to Indonesia to take part in a breeding program for the critically endangered species, officials said. The male rhino named Andalas is to mate with two female rhinos at the [...]