NEW BOY Indiana the white rhino calf
SOUTH Lakes Wild Animal Park is celebrating a new arrival after a white rhino gave birth to a calf.
Indiana, named after zoo owner David Gill’s son, gave her mother Ntombi a loving lick just after she was born, and immediately made her first tentative steps with encouragement from her mother.
It had been a long wait for staff at the zoo - a rhinocerous’ pregnancy lasts for between 15 and 16 months.
The rare birth is made all the more remarkable considering there was just one rhino born last year in Britain, and only six in Europe.
Two calves were born at the Dalton-in-Furness zoo in 2008, and Indiana’s arrival takes the herd of rhinocerous up to six.
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