Indian rhinos in US zoos

02-03-2008

Thats great news Okapikpr, all the best to Toronto zoo, they have some top rhino keepers there

03-03-2008

Thanx okapikpr,

Truly a breeding couple for the future! Their genetics are diverse and extremely important to the entire captive stock and indeed totally unrelated to any of the San Diego bloodlines.

Here is the individual family tree for Vishnu: parents VinuxEllah
Vinu
sire Kasi (wb. Assam, Mysore Zoo)
dam Rani (wb. Assam, Mysore Zoo)

Ellah
sire Heiner (cb. Berlin Zoo - Arjun (wb. Assam) x Miris (cb. Basel Zoo)
dam Mayang (wb. Assam, NY Bronx Zoo)


Now the in
Asha: parents Dhaulagiri/Hank x Tashi.

Hank
sire Billy (wb. Assam) x Xavira (cb. Basel Zoo)
dam Xavira (cb. Basel: Arjun (wb. Assam) xJoymothi (wb. Assam)

Tashi: parents ChandraxMary
sire Herman (wb. Assam) x Radha (wb. Assam)
dam Heiner (cb. Berlin Zoo) x Mayang (wb. Assam)

So far, so good.

03-03-2008

Looks like thats made your day Jelle LOL

08-03-2008

Recent quote from an The Wilds press release (around 28/10/2007):

quote: "Based on the Wilds’ successful and growing rhino breeding program, the Wilds received a male Indian rhino in July as part of an international breeding exchange program coordinated by the Zoological Society of San Diego.

The male rhino was born at the Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park in Patna, India. He joins two other male Indian rhinos at the Wilds, and will be used as a breeder male in the future.

In turn, the Wilds plans to send one of its male Indian rhinos to serve as a breeder at another facility.

The swap between conservation facilities is intended to add new blood lines to Indian rhino breeding programs both in India and the U.S." unquote

The male rhino arrival at the Wilds is Rustam (born 2002 or 2003).

14-03-2008

It looks like "The Wilds" may become another San Deigo WAP when there numbers of Indian rhinos build up and become a major producer of them, I hope so

14-03-2008

The breeding group at the Wilds constitutes some of the rarer genetic lines in the SSP Indian rhino population. The recent addition of 2 female calves in the short space of 1 week and now a totally unrelated captive-born male (who does have a little time to go and grow before he is an astute and adult breeding bull) bodes well for the future in Ohio.

I guess our US-based forum posters can vouch for that one too!

14-03-2008

Two more females calfs, thats really good news, when they are old enough for breeding they should boost the numbers at the wilds quite a bit

15-03-2008

I suppose that the hard core rhino fans (like Mark, etc) will know this already...but the recent birth at the San Diego Wild Animal Park was apparently the 55th greater one-horned rhino born there. Holy smokes!! I received my weekly San Diego Zoo email update today and I couldn't believe how much success they've had. Are the numbers also very high for black and white rhinos?

15-03-2008

I knew that they had bred over 50 of them but 55 is even better, Going of the top off my head now they bred more than 100 White rhino calfs a long time ago.

I am not sure how many Black rhinos they keep but as far as I know have never had big numbers of them, but I am sure the other hard core rhino fan "Jelle" would know that one, LOL

15-03-2008

I remember the calf Lali born in late December 2005 was their no. 50. So, in between they have had 5 (3 each in 2006 and 1 in 2007).

You mentioned you got an e-mail update is that the webby thing or are you a member of the Zoological Society?

Regarding the black rhinos: for these they kept usually 2.2 or less, so breeding output has been average. They have since switched to southern black rhino Diceros bicornis minor, then coming back to eastern black rhino Diceros bicornis michaeli. The latter are a pair that have produced their first calf in 2004.

For white rhinos they hold the record with Whipsnade Wild Animal Park in number of births, but in the last decade breeding has stalled ...????? Very few of the captive-bred and now mature cows have actually bred themselves. It is now the subject of a major study on breeding behaviour and failure in captive-born white rhinos.

15-03-2008

The calf snowleopard is refering to is a male Jontu born in January 2008 to Jakichu.

15-03-2008

@jelle: I'm not a member of the Zoological Society, and it was simply the weekly email update that I received.

So the San Diego Wild Animal Park has produced over 100 white rhinos, 55 greater one-horned rhinos, and at least 20 or so black rhinos? It just goes to show what can happen with large herds, an enormous amount of space, and terrific genes.

16-03-2008

The figures for black rhinos are incorrect. I wish they would have bred 20, sadly (lol) they have not. The better figure is probably 4-5 at the most.

Also the white rhino record of over 100, fails to take into account the production in the last decade .... From the latter perspective SD-Wild Animal Park now has a major issue with non-breeding captive-bron white rhino females ......!!!!

16-03-2008

Going slightly off-topic...

Is it fair to assume that compared to the Indian and White rhinos, black rhinos don't seem to have bred regularly at parks which have success with the other two?

Whipsnade is acclaimed for it's white and indian rhinos, yet blacks have been phased out due to lack of success. I'm not sure of Dvur Kravlove's numbers and breeding rates though...

16-03-2008

Jimmy just look at the breeding success Port Lypmne has had with the Black rhino species they have even sent some back to Africa