It's a girl!
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay welcomed a new baby white rhino Wednesday.
The newborn, which hasn't been named, weighs about 100 pounds. She is the offspring of Mlaleni and Tambo. Mlaleni's the mom.
The October 2004 birth of Mlaleni and Tambo's first calf, Malaika, marked the first white rhino birth in the park's history.
Their second calf, Dakari, was born in August 2006. Their third, Crash, was born in May 2008.
This latest birth brings the rhino population at the park to 12. There are nine white and three black rhinos.
Mlaleni, Tambo and another female white rhino were airlifted from Kruger National Park in South Africa in 2001.
According to the International Rhino Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection of rhinos, about 14,530 white rhinos remain in the wild and fewer than 170 live in zoological facilities across North America.
A staff report
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