Both momma and baby are healthy and doing well .
Rhinos are many thing . Huge . Majestic . Gentle . They ’re known for their large height and their prehistoric - looking horns . They are NOT , however , enormously regarded for their stealth skills . I mean , I doubt anyone has ever left their yurt and thought to look over their shoulder joint for any surprisal rhinos .
And yet , a surprisal rhinoceros is exactly what the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita , Kansas is deal with after their female rhinoceros Bibi give parentage to a completely unexpected niggling male child !
Courtesy of Sedgwick County Zoo
How could that take place , you demand ? Well , it ’s a spot that was facilitate along by the fact that rhinos keep their seat in the oven for a in particular tenacious time . While human maternity traditionally last nine months — and your dog will have agestation periodof right around two months — a rhino pregnancy is a 16 month involvement . Imagine getting pregnant in August , then spending the nexttwoChristmases in pregnancy bloomers .
The zoological garden ’s last male person rhino passed away in September , 2020 and the distich had n’t had … mommy / daddy clip since the previous fall . obviously , Bibi had a escort nighttime with the male person sometime in 2019 , but the zoo staff thought that it ’d been unsuccessful , i.e. no baby rhinos to plan for .
In a post to Facebook , the zoo says the creature care squad " was taken by surprise when lab event early last month indicated she may be fraught . Without access to specialty echography equipment , they could only speculate a gestational old age and potential due date . It was only over the past mates of weeks that Bibi ’s behaviour began to show that a baby may be on the way shortly . "
And in the vitrine of Bibi , " soon " wound up being in the morning hour of March 1 . The following day , the zoo ’s veldt keepers took over their Facebook page , filling the provender with photos and updates on the new veldt resident , include some nighttime River Cam footage of momma and infant root down for the nighttime .
You ’d be intemperately - press to incur a human on earth who does n’t agree that babe animals are some of the cute things to ornament the net ( zookeepers include ) . When zoos are blessed with some of their own — whether an endangered species likepandas , or more uncouth but minor and SUPER precious otters — they care to make a prominent deal out of their comer . So as you might expect , Sedgwick County is excited to show off their new fatal rhinoceros .
For the immediate future , Bibi and her beebee will remain in the indoor natural enclosure at the African veldt exhibit while zoo prole baby - proof the outer space . I ca n’t opine what goes into " babe - RHINO - proof " a space , but once everything is untroubled and the new black rhinoceros has gotten his first physical , both rhinos will be free to roam the enclosing and touch visitant face to boldness .
