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Cuba zookeepers celebrate birth of rare baby white rhino

June 25, 2022196 Views

The zookeepers at Cuba's National Zoo are especially proud of Ale, a pudgy, gray-brown baby white rhinoceros born earlier this month on the outskirts of capital Havana. For starters, he's cute. Baby rhinos look similar to adults, but have a stub in place of the horn and thus, are more docile in appearance. A newly-born white rhinoceros follows its mother (not pictured) at the National Zoo in Havana, Cuba, June 24, 2022. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini But the white rhino is also a threatened species, and zoos the world across have been asked to reproduce them in captivity in the hope of creating a gene bank that will help preserve the species should it go extinct in the wild. "It is a great privilege for us to be able to contribute to the rescue of a species as threatened as the w...

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Rare white-cheeked macaque spotted in Arunachal

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April 3, 2022484 Views

The mammal was first spotted in Anjaw district by scientists of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) earlier this year, and it was published in the February 3 issue of the international peer-reviewed journal 'Animal Gene'. The mammal is the newest addition to the list of primate species found in the Indian subcontinent, the official said. Before this, the white-cheeked macaque was found in Modog in southeastern Tibet in 2015, West Kameng district Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Chukhu Loma said. Anjaw is barely 200 km in aerial distance from where it was first spotted in Modog in China, he said. "Not many days after its discovery in Anjaw, a white-cheeked macaque was captured in a camera trap in Bishum Phudung in Dirang," he said. The animal has distinct facial features...