The specialized transport has traveled 3.000 km from Sweden and the young rhinoceros Amy, who turns 5 today, is already in the indoor facilities to begin her acclimatization period.
El rhino evokes impressive megafauna that populated our planet. Invincible in appearance and armed with his characteristic e imposing horn, just this one coveted attribute It is its greatest threat, encouraging terrible poaching. Nearly 10.000 deaths in the last 10 years are macabre witness to this infamy. With a wild population of about 15.000 white and 6.000 black rhinos, once again it is in our power to stop the path towards extinction. Different entities are fighting to save it with strategies that range from preventive amputation of the horns to controlled reproduction to guarantee its survival.
The rhino faces the dire threat of poaching that causes an average of 1.000 deaths a year for its coveted horn.
BIOPARC Valencia participates in an important international project in this last line of work called “ex situ” conservation. Under the guidelines of the expert team of the EEP (European Endangered Species Programme), a young female of southern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum simum) with the aim of joining the park group, made up of a male and a female.
Video: This has been the arrival of the new female rhinoceros.
It comes from the Kolmården Wildlife Park in Sweden and after a long and complex two-day trip through the characteristics of a 1.300kg animal, the specialized transport has arrived in the capital of Turia, where the personnel in charge of animal welfare have begun the care protocol. As a curiosity, it is worth mentioning that in this species a slower but safer procedure is implemented so that it enters its interior enclosure by walking slowly backwards and not facing it as one might think. This prevents it from getting scared and attacking.
Amy will join the park's breeding group of one male and one female.
Por el momento Amy, that today turns 5 years old, is in perfect condition and will be kept in interior facilities specially adapted to your needs. The most important thing is that you remain calm and, little by little, become familiar with your new home. It is still difficult to predict how long it may take. acclimatization period, since the most important thing is your well-being and that the incorporation into the current group with the male Cirilo and the female Nombula is carried out correctly and is a success.
BIOPARC Valencia has a truly exceptional space to contemplate the magnitude of the rhinoceros. In the area that recreates the savannah, a multispecies enclosure that he shares with Hartmann's zebras (Equus zebra hartmannae), Ostriches (Struthio camelus), marabou (Leptoptiles crumeniferus), pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus) to sacred ibises (Threskiornis aethiopicus). The southern white rhino It can be identified by its typical square snout adapted for grazing. He always carries his large head low, has a hump on his neck and two pointed ears. This herbivore requires large amounts of food and water areas where it can cool off and enjoy mud baths, so habitat loss is also a serious problem for its preservation.
