00:00What we're seeing here is a 17-year-old female southern white rhino named Holly and her newborn
00:10calf which was born three days ago here at the Safari Park. It's our 95th calf that's
00:15been born here and it's pretty exciting. Rhinos are a species that in the wild eat
00:26lots and lots of grass. That's primarily what they eat. They're pretty much lawn mowers.
00:32We oftentimes can't feed them grass because some places don't grow enough grass so we feed
00:35them other things that they might not be used to and oftentimes that can interfere with how
00:40their body works and make things not work properly.
00:50So what we've done is we've looked at what they eat in the wild and we've tried to make
00:55a diet in our zoo to feed our rhinos that is more closely like the wild diet in hopes
01:00that we can see more rhino calves being born.
01:08We're really excited. Holly has not had a calf before so genetically this calf is very valuable
01:13to the population and now more than ever we need a healthy population of rhinos outside
01:18of Africa. Also scientifically it's been we think a little bit of a breakthrough for us.
01:27I think what our research has shown is that what you eat has a big impact on how your body
01:32works and how your body functions.
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