YULEE, Fla. (AP) - Two rare, baby rhinos are being raised at a Florida refuge and one is roommates with a critically endangered forest antelope.
News outlets report the baby boom at White Oak Conservation in Yulee includes Tidbit, a critically endangered black rhino; Kali, an Indian rhino; and Tonks, a mountain bongo. Tidbit and Tonks live together at the wildlife nonprofit, sharing a heated barn when it’s cold and playing outside when weather is nice.
The Indian rhinoceros or greater one-horned rhinoceros is classified as vulnerable.
People were interested in these podcasts
Conservation Director Brandon Speeg says all three species are part of collaborative breeding programs, so Kali, Tidbit and Tonks could go to a partner organization like a zoo depending on what’s best to save their species.
The rhinos were born weeks apart this winter. Tonks entered the world in January.
Please read our comment policy before commenting.