This is the amazing moment a rare baby southern white rhino was born. The birth was captured on CCTV at West Midland Safari Park on 11 January 2024 at 1:48 am. After a few attempts, keepers noticed that the calf was struggling to get to her feet, so stepped in quickly to get her standing, enabling her to tentatively walk to her mum to have her first feed. Now one week old, the calf is doing well and has been given the African name Malaika, meaning ‘angel’. Malaika is the sixth baby white rhino to be born at the Park in the last eight years, marking another success for the Park’s involvement in a collaborative European breeding programme, conserving threatened species. Southern white rhinos are classed as ‘near threatened’ by the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature), with around 16,000 remaining individuals.
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