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You like my shampoo?

It also has eucalyptus in it.

Oh, so excited. You grabbed two!

This is Jamie Rhino, greater one -horned rhinoceros.

Hi, beautiful.

Today we're... We're hoping to do an ultrasound and see if we can see any

action inside.

Last year we saw some successful copulation with Jamie and Johnny, which

amazing. This could be the one.

There's been some drama with Jamie and Johnny. You know, is Johnny going to get

the job done? If he can't, are we going to have to find John another home and

then bring in another male? And none of us wanted to do that.

But we're still kind of waiting to see for sure if she's pregnant or not.

Hey, Amanda.

Hello. Taking good care of my girl here?

Of course.

She's spoiled.

Jamie and Johnny are the Asian rhino species.

We find them in northern India and Nepal.

They have what we call a prehensile lip that they use for grabbing leaves and

branches. Just a great animal.

So she's had three calves in the past with a different male. This is the first

breeding we've seen between her and Johnny.

So Dr. Lauren's coming down today, and we're going to do an ultrasound.

She looks pregnant.

And her intake, the girl can eat as much or more as Johnny.

She's a gentle giant.

Jamie, here with me, sister.

The animal care team is going to bring Jamie into a chute, and I can approach

her with an ultrasound unit.

Good girl.

Jamie weighs about 3 ,600 pounds, so she's a big girl.

It's completely up to Jamie whether she participates, and we want it to be fun

for her so that she wants to come hang out with us, she wants to do these

behaviors with us.

Angela, do you want to start rubbing down her side? Sure.

Giving her a belly scratch with a car brush. She's really liking that.

Oh, my goodness.

That's a spot. Right there.

We're going to try to do what's called a transabdominal ultrasound on Jamie to

see if we can find a calf.

Great

one

-horned rhinos have armored skin. It's really, really thick.

And in this instance, that provides an added challenge when you're trying to

an ultrasound.

Are you pregnant?

Looks like we're getting some image there.

Don't get me excited.

There's only about 3 ,500 Indian rhinos in the wild at this present time.

I believe there might be one other Indian rhino calf that's on the ground

in the state. And that's really not a whole lot.

If we have a pregnancy here, this is going to be huge.

We get Johnny's genetics out there to support a good, healthy population.

It's just going to be really great for greater one -horned rhinos.

I mean, I'm not seeing anything defined.

It's really difficult to see the images.

We'll go back to the hospital, and I'll take a look and see what we can find.

Cool. Well, hopefully we see something.

We'd love to see a little baby.

Let's go, sister.

You did great, Jamie.

Here you go, guys.

Enjoying your breakfast there?

You make a delicious salad. They're really enjoying it. All good.

This is our big mama female Fiji banded iguana.

They have beautiful colorations with the females being this beautiful green

color and the males being green with stripes.

You got pretty eyes.

I definitely care about her more than she cares about me.

Fiji banded iguanas are from the island of Fiji.

They're an endangered species.

Hello, guys.

Enjoy.

We have been highly successful in breeding Fiji banded iguanas.

I think we've hatched out 18, so that's quite a bit considering the whole

population in the U .S. is 59.

Our pair is so successful, we actually have to have them stop.

They're actually going to retire, so they're moving to another zoo in Texas.

And we'll get a brand new parent to promote genetic diversity so we can

our success in breeding.

Time to do some checkup.

Today we'll be doing the Fiji banded iguanas pre -shipment exam.

Nico, we got some iguanas for you. Perfect.

Make sure they're healthy before they make their journey to their new home.

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know.

You are good, good looking.

The male, he's in really good body condition.

Nice thick tail.

It's looking good.

I want to wrap their head.

We're going to just put a little bit of gauze in because this will relax them.

In iguanas, when you cover their eyes, it triggers them to go into a calm

Very cool.

I'm happy with that.

The male is normal. His x -rays are good.

I think we're probably going to be good to chip.

She's an amazing specimen.

Next one.

So this is the female because she doesn't have the band.

She's looking plump, too.

There might be a possibility that she might be carrying.

There's always a possibility.

The problem might be with the female.

During this time of the year, she might start to think about developing some

eggs, and we don't want to be chipping her if she's full of eggs.

Perfect.

Did you see just food in there, or is there those eggs you were looking at?

No, I cannot appreciate anything calcified, so I cannot say she has an

Let's see if we can get blood from her.

We just want to check her calcium levels, because typically high calcium

if we get it, might be related to egg development.

So now I just have to wait for the blood, make sure that the bloods are

Hey, here we go.

When will you have the blood work and all that ready so we can find out if

they're good to go?

Normally it takes 28 hours.

Oh, good.

You're so beautiful.

In the petting zoo, we have eight goats, one sheep, and four llamas.

Amber is our 11 -and -a -half -year -old female American black -bellied sheep.

Thank you.

I love Amber. She comes up to you when you need it. She follows you around.

I just love everything about Amber.

But Amber decided to do a mating behavior on one of our goats named

She'll try mounting her to the point where Merida, can't get away from her,

she'll end up going somewhere high to get away from Amber.

Hey, good morning. Hello.

When female animals, especially as they age, start to show some what we call

masculine -like behaviors, that means that potentially there's an imbalance in

their hormones, and that could speak to, unfortunately, some type of growth

within the reproductive tract.

All right, cool. Let's take a look at her. I'm ready. We're ready.

However, I'm not going to jump to that conclusion just yet. We kind of need to

get a little bit more information first.

Amber!

Come here.

What are you doing? You watching everything?

There's our girl.

Genji.

Okay, we got you.

They're like, hey, what's going on?

It's always fun coming into the yard. Pretty much everyone's really curious.

Hi. They want to see what good snacks you have.

I got peanuts.

And then avoid you when you need to do the exam.

Come on, sweetie.

She's an older animal.

Her body condition looks pretty appropriate.

She can be quite spunky.

Obviously, her appetite's fantastic.

Do you get the impression she's painful at all?

No. I'm not seeing lameness. The other thing is, you know, animals can be

irritated if they're super itchy or painful or uncomfortable, and that can

present kind of like aggression. But I'm actually overall just really impressed

with how she looks.

We're going to look into some other diagnostics, whether that be imaging or

hormone assays. So we've got a couple of things to tease out for her.

All right, well, let me look at what else we can do and try to keep everyone

happy. Okay. All right, cool. Sounds good. Thanks, guys. All right.

Bye, Amber.

Clinic to Animal Duty.

We're transporting a flying fox from the habitat to the clinic.

Stand for.

Good boy, Lobo.

Lobo is one of our male Malayan flying foxes.

Flying fox is a bat. We have about 30 bats total.

Thank you.

Lobo is a pretty sweet boy.

Lobo, out of all of our boys, is one of the friendliest.

And so as soon as I started working with them, I kind of fell in love with them.

So he has a lump.

Hopefully it's a benign lump.

A little while back, we noticed that Lobo had kind of like this little bump

his lip.

And over time, we noticed that that lump was getting a little bit larger.

And that might mean that there's something going on.

Who's going to catch it?

So it's going to be Danny and me primarily as catch.

Okay. And then we're going to basically burrito him.

Don't get bit. That's super important.

He's with a large group of bats, so you have to be careful because he will try

to bite.

Hi, guys.

Hi.

Hi, boys and girls.

I know. So I see him. He's walking away from us.

He's right against the back wall by the heat lamp.

They're not going to be happy.

Hello, Bo.

We noticed that Lobo had kind of like this little bump on his lip.

Goal number one would be catch it and do what we need to do.

I have his right wing.

Lobo doesn't understand what's going on. I would behave the same way if they're

trying to catch me.

We put a towel around him. That makes him feel a sense of comfort.

Very nice job, guys. Beautiful.

These particular bats are from the Pacific Islands and some parts of

I love to see them flying.

They're fruit eaters, so they go from flower to flower, pollinizing those

flowers. Super important.

He came in as an adult cat, so he's at least 12 years old.

It could be a papilloma, which is just a wart.

But my biggest concern is that it's a tumor.

All right.

You can catch him. You got him down.

10 -4.

The reason why they get the name flying fox is they look very similar to kind of

like a dog or a fox.

They have a really elongated snout to help with a better sense of smell and

of nice big eyes, that way they can look for their food.

We're going to sedate him.

And we're going to take a closer look at that mask.

Yeah, it's really well attached there.

It's next to his nose.

It has the look of a melanoma.

It's a dark -looking, cauliflower -type lesion.

Melanocytes is what give the pigment of your skin. The darker you are, the more

melanocytes you have.

Melanoma is a tumor of those type of cells.

I'm going to poke it with a needle.

We're going to get a 5 -meter aspirate, collect some cells that way, and I'm

sending it out to the lab so that the pathologist can tell me, yes, it is a

melanoma. Or if this is a papilloma, which is a benign type of tumor, and

on that report, then I can decide, do I want to be very aggressive and remove

that tumor?

There we go. We're getting a little more away.

If he has this, the sooner we remove this tumor from him, the better the

prognosis. Give him some sugar.

There we go.

He doesn't want that.

Yeah. Good old sweet.

And if we are proactive with him, the outcome can be really good. If left

untreated, the melanoma will win.

Early mornings is one of my favorite times.

You know, really nice and quiet around the zoo.

And it's a really good chance to see all the animals.

A little discomfort here and there? I don't know if you've seen that.

I haven't seen it yet this morning.

My first passion was aquatic animals, dolphins, manatees.

Hi, Riley.

You going to be a good boy?

But then as I get to work with all the type of species, I realize that the

passion, it doesn't just lie with a particular species.

It lies with veterinary medicine and the care that I can provide with them here

at the zoo.

He's my fave.

We have huge news for us.

Jamie is pregnant.

Yay! Good job, Jamie.

While I didn't get a clean image of a baby or a fetus, all the signs are

pointing to yes for her.

The fact that she hasn't cycled in such a long time, she visibly looks rounder.

It's not too often that I move forward with, you know, saying an animal's

pregnant unless I absolutely see an ultrasound, but I am convinced that she

pregnant.

It's a big deal for Jamie.

It's even a bigger deal for Johnny.

Johnny hasn't sired an offspring before, so that makes this birth incredibly

important on the genetic side of things.

Good for Johnny.

Today is Johnny's birthday.

He's turning 30, and that's a huge number.

Their lifespan is about 40, 45, so he's no spring chicken.

This is 30 -30.

We ready for Johnny's 30th birthday party?

Yeah!

Where's the cake at?

So we have a really nice cake. We've mixed in some alfalfa, some beet pulp,

produce, which he gets every day, and then he also has some nice ginger just

finish it off.

How creative!

He's going to love it. I hope he'll love it. I would, if I was a rhino.

Hi! Let's let him out.

John, it's time for your birthday party!

Oh,

there he goes.

Yay! Happy birthday, Johnny!

Hi.

Hi.

Happy birthday.

Happy birthday, dear Johnny.

Happy birthday to you.

What's up, buddy? Happy birthday.

To be able to celebrate a big milestone, a 30th birthday, with a guest, it's a

lot of fun.

Yummy, yummy.

Oh, yeah.

He's going to be a father, which makes this an even bigger event.

Johnny's got the job done, and Jamie will hopefully have a baby calf on the

ground soon.

You're so loved.

The expected gestation for a greater one -horned rhino is about 15 to 16 months.

So at this point, we expect that Jamie's about midway through her pregnancy.

Happy birthday, Johnny.

Here's to many more.

Hi, you.

It is a big day for Amber. It's a big day for all of us.

What? She's nervous.

Amber's causing a little bit of a ruckus in the barn right now with her

behavior.

Hey, I see you.

She's starting to mount some of the other goats.

Could be potentially explained by some changes in her hormones.

So I'm going to ultrasound her today.

I'm going to basically look for a tumor.

You've got ultrasound packed up? Ultrasound packed up. Do you want your

Yeah, let's do goggles.

Come here, you, Dr. Lauren.

Hello.

She's very relaxed.

Great.

Interesting.

How's your image, Dr. Lauren?

It looks really good.

I think that's the kidney.

Right now, I'm just doing an overall scan. I'm looking for anything that

belong.

GI.

Got a big bladder.

All right, let's save that image.

This area looks a little unusual.

That might be pathologic.

All right, Amber.

Today I'm doing an abdominal ultrasound on Amber the sheep.

I'm basically going on a tumor hunt.

Please save that.

That might be pathologic.

The tumor issue is coming more real.

Save that?

Save?

I do not think it's going to go as smoothly as I hope.

Ooh, that was good.

A couple things I'm seeing on ultrasound, I'm able to pick up on her

There is an area of some tissue that has me a little suspicious that this might

be a mass.

That's a good one. I don't want to press on your belly too much more.

Good girl.

Go ahead.

So I think we have here, like, this is pretty amorphous.

If it is a tumor, the correction would be surgical.

And then I think we'll have to discuss really kind of the next steps here.

One of the things I'd really like to do for Amber, too, is just to get some

plain x -rays.

And in this instance, I think I could get better images if she comes up to the

hospital.

You did so good.

You're so brave.

There's something in there. We just don't know what it is. And hopefully

get Amber up to the clinic and get x -rays, we'll find out exactly what's

on. Now we just have to get you to clinic.

Hi,

buddy.

I love working in the Asian section of the zoo. We have such a diverse group of

animals. There's something for everybody. We have tigers, we have

have pigs.

You want it?

Get all those peanuts out.

It's a really fun area for guests to get to see animals they may have not seen

before.

Good morning, Jamie.

Hi, beautiful.

You want to come over here?

Jamie's quite sassy. I like that in an animal.

In here.

So this morning we're going to do some blood draw training with Miss Jamie.

She loves carrots, so it's a really good tool to use during these behaviors.

We are working on voluntary blood draw from her front leg, which would help us

monitor her hormone levels during the pregnancy.

It'll be really beneficial for Jamie not only for pregnancy, but the whole rest

of her life to make sure there's no weird medical stuff going on with her.

Hi, beautiful.

Cross.

Good job.

Here, you can step up and touch her shoulder.

When we do a blood draw, we're going to do the inner front leg here. So it's

really important that she kind of crosses those legs. It gives us better

to it. Cross.

Good job.

We'll be taking a draw from in here.

So vet staff are going to have to palpate to find a vein.

Good girl.

I love working with Jamie. She's really smart. She's super food motivated.

So she's a really cool animal to work with.

Okay, again.

Cross.

I saw Jamie fully cross her legs in the yard one day, and I was like, hmm, that

would be handy.

Cross. It probably took her maybe a month to figure that out.

I had to make it clear that I was expecting her to move her left leg

until it was...

Right in front of her right leg.

Press.

And she's nailing it. It's just the duration that we're working on at this

point.

There you go.

End on a good one.

Greater one -horned rhinos are not doing so great in the wild, so any

contribution to the global population is really amazing and beneficial.

Come.

I'm proud of her.

One carrot. Last one.

Meerkat.

You guys want some treats?

Oh yeah. Sam does.

So here at the zoo currently we have four meerkats.

Ralphie, Sam, Ranger, and Peabody.

They're meerkats. Long -tailed meerkats.

We have four boys and they're all brothers.

It's definitely hard to keep track of them. They have holes everywhere in

different tunnels throughout their habitat.

Mealworms are definitely one of their favorite snacks.

They don't get that every single day.

Here we go.

Mealworms galore.

I love hanging out with the meerkats. I think they're really underrated. We have

a lot of big animals here in Africa, but a lot of people tend to miss them.

They're really cool. They have a lot of personality for a small animal.

The cutest.

Bye!

After you.

Thank you, thank you.

This is the female Iwana that we're trying to ship to another institution.

Super cool animal, man.

It's just every aspect of the Fiji is just amazing.

The male is nice and clear.

He's healthy, so we're going to be shipping him with no concern.

Have a good flight to Texas.

We have a nice, soft cotton bag. It's very breathable.

That'll go into the box with temperature control.

We get live animal stickers on there. All right. We send him off in a box of

love.

The female, for the most part, the blood work is okay.

We have a calcium that is a little bit elevated.

That's another sign that she might be cycling.

To me, she looks on the plump side.

We're going to do an ultrasound.

We just want to make sure that there's nothing really big inside her egg white.

We got a little bit of gel.

I'm not finding anything really obvious.

I'm not seeing anything.

Not yet.

See that? You see that line there?

Yeah.

That's very suspicious to me, Dan.

Suspicious or looks like an egg.

You see that?

Yeah.

Just saying that we've got an egg there.

We have a female Fiji banded iguana.

that has already produced about 16 babies.

She's very important because she's part of the species survival plan.

This could potentially be the margin of the lining of the shell.

We're trying to retire her and send her to Texas so that they can continue with

her care over there, but we need to make sure that she's not carrying more eggs.

Anything that looks like a nice dark circle is a possible egg.

So that looks like a good one there.

Maybe there's two.

That has to be an egg.

On the ultrasound, what we ended up finding was that she does have some

follicles, some egg development inside her.

But if you wait too long, too late to ship.

She's such a good, healthy female.

This all appears to be early stages of reproductive development, so I'm feeling

comfortable to let her go.

Cool.

You ready, Amber?

Come on.

You're the best sheep I ever met.

You ready for a walk?

Amber has been having some mating behaviors with her goats and aggression

behavior with other goats as well.

Good job.

We did do an ultrasound on her, and it looks like she has a mass that we

has to do with hormones.

Doing great.

Dr. Lauren asked that we bring Amber up to the clinic for x -rays because they

have a better x -ray machine in clinic.

Good job.

I love you.

Can you go on a scary board?

Right now, we are working on her to step up onto the medical table.

Good job.

I'm going to step up here on this big, scary table. Are you coming with?

She's never climbed before, so this is something branded to her as scary.

We can also try sitting on the corners.

We'd have each person on the side of the table, and that way it kind of helps

funnel her through to the position she wanted.

Over here.

Around this way.

You got it.

Got all four of them.

You're a really good stretcher.

You got it.

Nice job.

Can you come up all the way?

How long can I make my neck?

There she is. Good job. She's up there.

She made it on the table.

She did it.

She made it on the table, and I am so excited because we are one step closer

getting those x -rays.

Good job.

You did it. You did it. So exciting.

In the next few weeks, we will find out what's going on with Amber.

She's come a long way. I absolutely love that sheep.

Aviary to clinic.

Go to clinic.

We're on our way up with Lobo.

Today we have surgery going on with Lobo, one of our male Malayan flying

He has a mass on his lip that they're going to be removing.

All right. Here we go, mister.

Ready? Okay.

The mass on Lobo's face is right on the very end of the right side of his lip.

Dr. Nico took a sample of that and sent that to the lab.

Results are showing that it's consistent with what's called a melanoma or a skin

cancer.

So now we're going to actually remove the mask to try to prevent from any

potential spread to other organs.

Oh, crud.

The other thing that is concerning, though, is this here.

It looks like there's another mask.

Oh, crud.

Looks like there's another path.

The little thing on his chin? Yeah.

There's a bump on his chin here that we'll take a look at that as well.

I'm going to take an aspirate of that.

We're going to take a small sample of it with a needle and syringe and send it

to the lab and make sure that there's not anything that we need to worry about

with that.

Oh, yeah. Got something.

Well, that's inflated.

A pimple? Yeah.

The aspirate that I took I think is a cyst because it deflated as soon as I

out the material, but we'll still send it to the lab just to make sure.

All right, Stacy, ready?

Yep.

1005, cutting.

This mass does appear to be kind of getting really close to the bottom part

his nostrils, and I might have to take a small portion of that.

I feel like that I can have a higher chance of getting these margins that I

and hopefully not leave any cells behind.

I'm almost finished taking this thing off.

Oh, goodness.

That looks scary.

It's a good size.

Okay, one part down.

Almost finished here. Just one more ditch and then clippity -clip.

Make you all purdy.

Kind of.

It's going to look like he has a permanent tomorrow.

Pretty much.

Best case scenario would be that we get all of the mass. We have what we call

clean margins.

Hi, buddy.

Worst case scenario would be if cells have spread to his other organs.

Oh, sorry, dude.

We'll get results back from the biopsy and see where we are.

Yeah, he's going to definitely have a weird snarl.

I had named him Lowell because he had the most handsome, regal, wolf -like

So this just makes him a little bit more rugged and distinguished.

You're still beautiful.

Good morning, tortoises.

Time to start your day.

You ready to go to your new home?

Big Mama here.

She's passed all her physicals.

She gets to be shipped off to her new home. She's going to be transported over

there and join the mail in Texas.

She has been an incredibly prolific iguana, so she has a lot of offspring.

Lots of other institutions now get to participate in the SFP because of her.

So we'll let her say goodbye to a few of her offspring.

That's your little girl.

She's going to be going to another zoo too for breeding.

Hopefully she can breed just as much as you did.

There's a couple of your boys.

You've made quite the legacy for yourself.

Sad to see her go, but we're super happy that she'll get to continue spreading

the word about Fiji banded iguanas, and we're going to get a new pair and breed

more for the SSC.

All right.

Hopefully you have fun being an ambassador now over in Texas.

We're about to get a little batty in here.

Hello, Lobo.

What we got scheduled is Lobo, the flying fox, will remove a melanoma off

lip. That's a good size.

That went really well.

Oh, sorry, dude.

Well, we don't want it for this to come back.

So the biopsy results did come back as a malignant melanoma. Okay.

This is a melanoma vaccine. Melanoma vaccine. It's the same vaccine that we

dogs. Got it.

We're going to do this new vaccine that has not been tried on a bat, but it has

been tried in other species and has been very successful, so I'm really excited.

I know, bud. Perfect. Good job. That's drama.

Dr. Kane is here.

Kane, you want to take a look at him?

An oncologist from one of the local referral places here decided to donate

time and help us out with the vaccine.

Yeah, because we just basically are going to, it's going to go into muscle.

There's no needle.

It's a really high -pressure spring. It shoots it right through the skin.

That was it. Cool.

Nice, nice, nice.

It is very exciting since this is something that's not been tried before,

it's something that we can see how it works for him so we can pave the way for

other treatments in the future.

Looks good to me.

Hi, bud.

I'm really pumped about what might come for the future for this little guy that

we might be able to cure him.

Hey, bud.

Lobo, we're rooting for you.

Look at that face. You're so handsome.

Hey, Mata.

Hi.

I know. I didn't bring any snacks, though.

I'm so sorry, buddy.

The reason I work at a zoo is, of course, because of the animals.

But it is the conservation message that goes along with it.

Do you want a snack?

You have a lot of people that come to the zoo that don't really know about

animals. And those are the people that you want to, like, touch and have them

understand how incredible.

All of these animals are.

Hey, Yemi.

Good boy.

Love you, buddy.

I wouldn't trade it for anything.

We have waited years for Jamie to give birth, and today is the day when Jamie's

ready.

This is an exciting day for everybody here at the zoo.

We can tell today's the day just by her behavior. She's moving around on the

habitat a lot.

She seems uncomfortable and unsettled.

For the birthing, we don't do anything for Jamie other than supply a nice safe

space for her that's really heavily bedded.

Jamie has done this three times before.

Jamie does all the work, and we're just on standby, ready to help if we need to.

Doing great, Jamie.

You can see some active labor pains coming through.

You can see the baby emerge.

Oh, that's so cool. There is a high anxiety there until the

calf is on the ground.

We have waited years for Jamie to give birth.

You can see some active labor pains coming through.

Doing great, Jamie.

You can see the baby emerge.

There is a high anxiety there until the calf is on the ground and you see it

breathing.

It's amazing. It never gets old.

It's one of the most wonderful things I've ever seen.

Jamie did great.

Every birth here at the zoo is a sign of hope, a sign of hope for the species

that will continue on.

So exciting.

Man, we have the greatest job here. We get the opportunity to be a part of some

of the most incredible things you can experience.

Jamie's always a rock star.

Oh, my goodness.

Yay,

we have a baby.

Within the first hour after birth, we're expecting the baby to be on their feet.

Oh, look.

It's always funny watching them stand up for the first time. It's really wobbly.

Then they hobble around for a little bit with a couple of falls here and there.

They're just designed to get up and to know what to do.

The baby was standing within the first 10 minutes or so, and nursing with under

an hour.

Love it.

Such a good mama, honey.

Jamie did an outstanding job.

She's a good mom.

In the next coming days, we'll spend more time with the calf.

Lots of fun times ahead, and he's adorable.

He's so perfect.

A stumbling, bumbling baby trying to figure out the world.

Amber? Hi, sweetheart.

Amber is doing awesome.

Hi. Amber is a tough little sheep.

This was not a tumor that had metastasized. She had a huge fluid

and so that really needed to come out.

And we're really happy and really fortunate that she did great.

Good job.

All that aggression that we saw, the breeding behavior, is completely gone

Amber. Hi, Angie, do you want to come out too?

You want to bring Amber with you? Yeah?

Okay.

Amber is back to her normal self. She's hanging out with Angie.

Angie is her llama mama, always protecting her, making sure she's safe.

They are two peas in a pod.

Good job.

Come on.

I'm extremely happy because it could have been very bad.

We could have lost her. So knowing that she's here, she's healthy, makes me

extremely happy.

There they go.

I love Amber.

All right, Amber, I'll see you later.

Angie, you take care of her.

Everything we're seeing from this calf is spot on.

He is about a week and a half old. We are super stoked that he's finally here.

We've waited a long time for this.

Good morning, Angela.

Good morning.

He's adorable.

We love him already.

Let's see if he'll come out. Right.

Our goal today is to start a relationship filled with our new rhino

Hey, Jamie.

Want a snack?

And I'm going to sit there and just remain calm and let him come in at his

pace.

Oh, yeah.

There is a gate that has a large square.

Jamie Rhino can't fit through it, but the calf can walk through the gate.

Hi, sweet boy.

He's like, what are you?

There he is. He wants you over here.

He's going to have the freedom to come see us, and he's going to have the

freedom to go back with mom.

Totally up to him whether he wants to come in.

Thinking about it.

Yeah? Oh, hi.

Oh, my God. I'm just sitting, and I'm being patient, as patient as I can be,

then he finally comes over to me, and it's incredible.

Oh, my goodness, you sweet boy.

It's a human hand.

Thank you.

It's kind of almost, you know, an out -of -body experience when you get to be

face -to -face with such a rare species, and he's absolutely beautiful.

Hi.

Hey, kiddo.

Part of the goal here is also for me to just do a baseline veterinary assessment

and just get a good visual on him.

I could palpate under his belly and around his umbilical area, and

would look really, really good.

Look at that perfect little booty.

Population for greater one -horned rhinos is in peril, and to have a rhino

on the ground is a major accomplishment and a very important one for

conservation.

This calf is amazing for an ambassador for this species.

She says you get back in here.

It's incredible.