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Baby rhino takes first shaky steps at Royal Burgers’ Zoo

Royal Burgers’ Zoo in Arnhem announced happy news that a healthy looking, square lipped rhinoceros was born in the early hours of Tuesday morning, October 26. The latest addition to the zoo was born in a heated enclosure on Tuesday, 26 October, the zoo said. The experienced mother has birthed a total of eight calves, her latest being the fourteenth rhinoceros to be born in Arnhem since 1977. Royal Burgers’ Zoo remains one of Europe’s most successful breeders of square-lipped rhinoceros.