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Here, the rhino cub Amadi takes his amazing first steps.
But the birth in Kolmården a week ago could have ended badly.
– It was a dramatic delivery when the baby got stuck in the birth canal, says Linda Berggren, an animal manager in Kolmården.
Fortunately, the staff were on site and were able to help Amadi.
The nose is blunt and the feet are huge.
But it doesn’t have a horn yet, little Amadi.
Small and small: he weighed 60 kilos when he was born last Friday, November 13.
For 16 months, his mother, the veteran Infolozi, 28, has been pregnant.
When the time came, of course, she was closely monitored, and it was fortunate.
The rhino cub, his sixth, got stuck going out into the world.
But both vets and animal handlers were in place for Infolozi and could quickly help get the calf out.
– At first, the child got carried away a bit, but then quickly recovered and started breastfeeding in the morning as he should, says Linda Berggren, animal manager at Kolmården.
Even after 24 hours, a rhino cub can walk steadily and accompany its mother. Both Amadi and her mother are fine.
– Today he is active, he moves a lot and has already started to play with his mother. We really want to get to know the little crab better.
Photograph: Kolmården / TT NYHETSBYRÅN
Rhinoceros cub Amadi.
On Amadi’s long blunt nose, there is a hint of the horn that will grow there. In a year and a half it will weigh almost ten times more than today, about half a ton.
But he will continue with diabetes until he is two years old, and he wants to stay with his mother even longer.
As an adult, it can weigh up to 2.5 tons.
The Kolmården rhinos are part of an international conservation program to save rhinos.
Amadi is a blunt rhino, whose natural habitat is the savannas of Africa. However, few rhinos are left in the wild, as they are hunted and killed for their horns.
His mother, Infolozi, came to Kolmården from South Africa in 2003.
Kolmården’s most famous rhino cub is Nelson, the first rhinoceros rhinoceros cub to be born in Sweden in 1995.
Nelson, however, had an incurable congenital brain disease and the entire Swedish people continued his struggle for life. Nelson lived only eleven days, before dying on February 20, 1995.
He was cremated and in 2000 the ashes were buried in Lars Vilk’s Nimis artwork.
Photo: Pontus Lundahl / TT / TT NEWS AGENCY
Kolmården.
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