00:05What 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 pretty much lawn mowers.
00:31We oftentimes can't feed them grass because some places don't grow enough
00:34grass so we feed them other things that they might not be used to and oftentimes
00:38that can that could interfere with how their body works and and make things not
00:42work properly.
00:49So what we've done is we've looked at what they eat in the wild and we've tried to
00:54to make a diet in our zoo to feed our rhinos that is more closely like the
00:59wild diet in hopes that that we can see more rhino calves being born.
01:07We're really excited it's you know Holly has not had a calf before so genetically
01:12this calf is very valuable to the population and and now more than ever we
01:16need a healthy healthy population of rhinos outside of Africa. Also
01:20scientifically it's it's been we think a little bit of a breakthrough for us.
01:27I think what our our research has shown is that what you eat has a big impact on on
01:32how your body works and how your body functions.
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