00:00A baby white rhino makes its debut in South America. Officials at a zoo in Chile presented
00:08Silverio to the public for the first time after he got a clean bill of health from veterinarians.
00:15Zoologists say the little one is the third baby born to parents Hannah and Oliver,
00:20a pair of white rhinos who arrived at the facility 11 years ago. Zoo officials say
00:25Silverio's birth marks the ninth rhino to be born in captivity worldwide in the last year,
00:31giving the endangered species a population boost. Currently, there are just over 10,000
00:36mature white rhinos left in the world, according to the Red List of Threatened Species, and the
00:42director of the Wildlife Center in Chile says the calf's arrival is a tremendous contribution
00:47to the conservation of the species.
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