Super-cute new animal at Welsh zoo after 15-month pregnancy – Wales Online

A critically-endangered eastern black rhino calf has been born in Wales. After a 15-month long pregnancy mum Dakima gave birth to a healthy male calf on Thursday, November 27. The zoo say it is a significant achievement for the captive breeding programme.
The boy is the second rhino calf to be born at the family-run zoo. Eastern black rhinos are classed as critically endangered due to poaching and loss of habitat. There are thought to be an estimated 1,471 Eastern black rhino left in the wild and around 109 in zoos across Europe including Folly Farm’s newest addition.
The calf made its appearance at 6.34am and within a couple of hours was standing up, following mum around the enclosure, and had started suckling.
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Mum Dakima, 12, has been at Folly Farm since 2017. Mating rhinos can be unpredictable but her relationship with 14-year-old male Nkosi blossomed and in 2020 she gave birth to calf Glyndŵr.
Eastern black rhinos are solitary animals and therefore usually reside in their own paddocks but Dakima and Nkosi were reintroduced again for some carefully-planned "date nights" and keepers predicted she fell pregnant sometime in August 2024.
