Asha, a 15-year-old rhino, gave birth to a female calf on October 14.
The Chester Zoo in England, United Kingdom has recently announced the birth of a critically endangered species, the one-horned rhinoceros. The zoo revealed in a release that Asha, a 15-year-old rhinoceros, gave birth to a female calf on October 14 and the incident was captured on video in the rhino’s mother’s cage.
according to releaseThe newborn has formed a close bond with its mother and already wears a slightly wrinkled armor plate, just like its parents.
A video of this adorable cute baby rhino has been shared by Chester Zoo’s official YouTube page on Wednesday. Posting the video, the zoo wrote, “We are celebrating our latest arrival at the zoo: an endangered one-horned rhinoceros calf born to Asha, mother after 16 months of pregnancy!”
In the video, the rhinoceros mother gives birth to a newborn and the rhinoceros later walks with the mother. The video has been viewed over 3,000 times.
The species was originally distributed throughout the northern Indian subcontinent, but is currently found only in India and Nepal. According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Endangered Species, there are only 3,000 large one-horned rhinos left in the wild, as they face poaching for their horns and habitat destruction.
Large one-horned rhinos have been pregnant for about 15 months, so zookeepers are eagerly waiting for the calf to be born. release Said further.