Cuba zookeepers celebrate birth of rare baby white rhino
June 27, 2022
7:33 AM CDT
Last Updated 19 hours ago
Reuters
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HAVANA, June 24 (Reuters) - The zookeepers at Cuba's National Zoo are especially proud of Ale, a pudgy, gray-brown baby white rhinoceros born earlier this month on the outskirts of capital Havana.
For starters, he's cute. Baby rhinos look similar to adults, but have a stub in place of the horn and thus, are more docile in appearance.
But the white rhino is also a threatened species, and zoos the world across have been asked to reproduce them in captivity in the hope of creating a gene bank that will help preserve the species should it go extinct in the wild.
"It is a great privilege for us to be able to contribute to the rescue of a species as threatened as the white rhinoceros," said Alexander Arango, a Cuban zoo specialist in exotic wildlife, as he watched the newborn graze on a patch of grass beside his mother, Katherine.
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Ale, the new baby white rhino at Cuba's national zoo
529 views Jun 24, 2022 Ale, a baby white rhino born on June 9 in Havana, strolls curiously with his mother Katherine.
Baby Ale, fresh from a mudbath