Rhinos in the UK

The U.K. wants a even population of both species so Whipsande ended up with White as the last died or were exported.

BennettL

 

Thanks a lot for the list, Ed. It is pretty tricky to get the UK rhino data updated.

You might have missed Dayo and Hodari at Yorkshire Wildlife Park. Did the boys settle in well? Are they brave enough now to go out of the house?

 

Would have to agree, Dave!

 

I will try post an updated list soon, The boys at Yorkshire from what I have heard have only left the house for only short periods of time

 

After no calf had been born at Whipsnade for a number of years, two black rhino females at Whipsnade died, in fairly quick succession. These were Emma born at Chester, who had not bred in all the time she was at Whipsnade, and then she was replaced by a female from Berlin (Saya?) who did not live very long at all. The bull Quinto, Whipsnade's last black, was then returned to Chester. I think Whipsnade decided to just quietly go out of the species after these failures. They had bred them successfully with different rhinos in the past, with around five births, though some of these dns or died later after transfer.

 

Here is the updated version of Rhinos in the UK just under a year after the original.
A total of 109 Rhinos in the UK: 65 Southern White Rhinos 34 Eastern Black Rhinos 10 Greater One Horned Rhinos, hardly an even population.

The current holders are:
Africa Alive!
Blair Drummond Safari Park
Chester Zoo
Colchester Zoo
Chessington World of Adventures
Cotswold Wildlife Park
Edinburgh Zoo
Flamingo Land
Folly Farm
Howletts Wild Animal Park
Knowsley Safari Park
Longleat Safari Park
Manor Wildlife Park
Marwell Wildlife Park
Noah's Ark Zoo Farm
Paignton Zoo
Port Lympne Reserve
South Lakes Safari Zoo
West Midlands Safari Park
Woburn Safari Park
Yorkshire Wildlife Park
ZSL Whipsnade Zoo

 

Couple of Updates: White Rhino born at Colchester, Otto the Rhino is now at Woburn and the youngest South Lakes Rhino has been named "Mosi". Meaning actually there is 111 Rhinos in the UK and 67 White Rhinos.

 

When was Otto moved to Woburn?

 

In November

 

Thank you.

 

Does anybody know where the first Black rhinos of Chester Zoo, arrived in 1959(o.1) and 1960(1.0)were housed ? When was the first rhino house opened , and were there all three speices of rhinos in it, or were the three rhino speices kept in seperated houses ?

I also need to know why Chester has stopped keeping Indian Rhinos in 1998 and brought them back in 2007 ? I guess, for space reasons ?

 

Chester's first pair of Black Rhinos were f.Susie (wildcaught) and m.Roger (Ist black rhino born in Bristol Zoo and first in the UK.) I believe they had exhibited at least one previously though, as mentioned somewhere on this site.

Originally and for several decades, only pairs of Black & White rhinos were exhibited, not Indians, in the oldest(original) rhino house adjacent to the zoo boundary and which is still in use though I think off-view to the public nowadays. The Whites were later phased out and more Blacks acquired, with additional paddocks and houses being brought into use.

The first Indian rhino was a single male Yodha, born at Whipsnade He was also kept in the original house until sent to Berlin(see Tim May's post below for dates), hence the interval before a breeding pair was first acquired.

Chester fans will no doubt correct any details I am wrong on.

 

Sorry to contradict you-

Chester Zoo's first Indian rhinoceros, "Yodha", didn't come from Berlin; he was sent to Berlin.

"Yodha" was born at Whipsnade in 1986 and was at Chester from 1987 until 1998 when he was sent to Berlin.

 

I should indeed have known that but thanks for the correction.

 

Indeed; "Susie" arrived in 1959 and "Roger" in 1960.

Rookmaaker (1998) also records a short lived female black rhino that arrived at Chester in 1953 and which died shortly after arrival. He gives no details as to the source of the animal nor does he supply the exact dates that it was at the zoo.

 

Otto ,the male from Colchester zoo, is only on breeding loan to Woburn so will return to Colchester in the near future.

 

The original rhino house at Chester is still in use, as Pertinax has explained. The internal sections are virtually unchanged, but they are not now accessible to the public; although quite a few ZooChatters have seen them on walk-and-talk days. The first paddock, which was originally for the white rhino pair, has been remodelled and now holds the warthogs, until quite recently it also held a group of banded mongooses. This paddock can be viewed by visitors before they actually enter the zoo, like the Elephant House and paddock on the other side of the entrance area.

 

Any updated list of the amount of Rhinos at each collection