Oh thanks Nanoboy Yes I will improve on my spelling thanks for the heads up. Sorry for any inconvenience
Tried looking but could only find an International White Rhinoceros Studbook online that was from 2011 when she was still in Cairns. Would guestimate that she could possibly have been sent to one of the zoos in Indonesia??
Most of the Cairns animal were sent to the Taman Safari parks in Indonesia. Unfortunately, theres not much more information, as all three Taman Safari Parks have White Rhino. She could be at any one of them.
Wouldn't be surprised if she ended up at the one in Bali being established a bit later on and in want of supplying their park with animals (mind you would imagine they may have already had a couple of White Rhinos before Cairns/Shambala closed down.)
Taman Safari Bogor have a breeding group, and Bali and Prigen have groups too although there's been no mention of breeding. If they wanted to breed Nakili, which they probably would've due to her new genetics, she most likely would be at Bogor.
I believe Nakili was a male rhino. He came from the well represented San Diego line, which also supplied Auckland Zoo with 1.1 in 1980 and Orana Wildlife Park with 0.2. The bull that sired these rhinos bred with several founder cows at San Diego, some of which produced 14-15 calves. Internationally speaking, Nakili was not genetically valuable and no great loss to the region re. export to Indonesia. The hippos however…
The wild born founders of both San Diego and Whipsnade produced record breaking numbers of calves. The first generation offspring, especially the females born at San Diego, were notoriously poor breeders in comparison. Two of the cows imported into New Zealand never bred; while the other produced a single calf and then ceased to breed again.
@Zoofan15 Thats awesome about the record numbers with the wild-born Rhinos, interesting about the first captive born Rhinos not having the same breeding success levels. Can imagine that San Diego and Whipsnade were amongst the handful of zoo's who received wild-caught Southern White Rhinos from South Africa in the 1960s (especially from around Hluhluwe–iMfolozi/Umfolozi Nature Park in Natal region from memory where the Southern White Rhinos managed to recover in population over the last century and I believe that was where all the other game reserves and possibly even Kruger National Park & similar received many White Rhinos from as a re-introduction undertaking).
Whipsnade imported 20 white rhinos in 1970, which joined a pair they already had at the zoo. Apparently the first generation females were more successful reproductively than their San Diego counterparts. Auckland Zoo had a bull from San Diego. He was housed with his sister for the first decade of their lives and then lived alone until the import of 1.2 from Kruger National Park. The wild born bull was favoured for breeding due to being a founder to the international breeding programme.
