Black rhino

This baby black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) was recently born at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas.

Besides the fact that she's so cute, this caught my attention because we once spent most of a day running around a park in Zululand in South Africa trying to spot a black rhino that I wrote about here.

No wonder we came up empty: According to the International Rhino Foundation, there are less than thirteen-hundred in all of South Africa.


Linky to Thoughts From Kansas at ScienceBlogs.

Plushy has nothing to do with this post but just hadn't been featured in a while.