00:00 So this baby is really really important to us not only just at Yorkshire Wildlife Park
00:04 but in more general terms because these guys are critically endangered and it is the first
00:10 baby we've ever bred at Yorkshire Wildlife Park so it is super important for us here
00:14 at the park.
00:15 So since the baby was born, obviously the first few days he was quite quiet but his
00:21 mum is probably the biggest eater we've got in the house in terms of rhinos.
00:25 He has picked that up immediately within the first day he was putting things in his mouth.
00:30 He's a bit like a toddler, anything that's edible he will put in his mouth even though
00:34 he can't eat it, even though he's got no teeth yet he's trying things out.
00:39 So in terms of personality he is incredibly energetic just like his mum.
00:43 Obviously she'll be getting in a lot more sleep at the moment with feeding him and looking
00:47 after him than she normally would but when she is sleeping generally that's the time
00:51 he's running around the pen, he's jumping on her trying to wake her up, bothering her.
00:56 The first few days we actually found that she would sleep with him sort of penned into
01:00 a corner so he couldn't get out and so he couldn't run around and so he would have a
01:05 little bit of a sleep but she's given up with that and she's just resigned herself to the
01:09 fact that he's always running around, always bothering her.
01:11 So an Azuma and the baby will have the choice of whether they're in the house or out in
01:18 the reserve so when you come to the park hopefully you'll be lucky and see them popping in and
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