Busch Gardens Tampa Bay has a new baby white rhinoceros

Busch Gardens Tampa Bay has a new baby white rhinoceros originally born on the 26-acre white rhino habitat on Busch Gardens’ Serengeti Plain. She has spent the last week bonding with her mother out of guest view. The baby and her mother will rejoin the crash, or group of rhinos, this morning. 

The baby’s mother, father and another female white rhino were airlifted from Kruger National Park in South Africa in 2001 through the efforts of the International Rhino Foundation (IRF), a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of rhinos. Fewer than 15,000 white rhinos remain in the wild, and approximately 200 live in zoological facilities across North America.