This is good news in this gloomy month of January. A baby rhino was born at the Amnéville zoo, Tuesday, January 18, at 11:27 a.m. He is the child of one of the females, Yoruba. We don’t know her gender yet., a medical examination will soon have to determine it, and the zoo promises, on its Facebook page, to give news quickly. Anyway, this baby will have a playmate in the person of Mosl, the little rhino born at the zoo last October.
Remember that white rhinos are listed as Near Threatened in their natural habitat, in particular because of poaching for their horn, even if their population has increased considerably in recent years: they went from an almost extinct species, in 1885, with only 20 individuals in a private reserve, to 20,000 today, according to the Amnéville zoo.