The first in ten years, conceived with artificial insemination
The zoo in Guhawati, capital of the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, has announced the birth of the first rhinoceros conceived in captivity in the last ten years, and has launched a competition to name it.
The new arrival is the third rhino born in the center of Guhawati, after Pori, who was born in 2002 and Sanatan, in 2013, and was conceived, thanks to artificial insemination, by a pair of adult specimens living in the nature reserve of Kaziranga, one of the reserves in the world with the largest number of rhinos.
For the first few months, the pair of parents and the cub will be kept in an area of the zoo, inaccessible to visitors.
