00:04This morning we're at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park at our Asian Plains field enclosure doing
00:09a rhino release with Greater One Horn Rhino Alta and her female calf Anandi. So after they were
00:19out in the exhibit for a little while Alta found the rest of the rhinos, the crash, they were all
00:26sleeping between the swales, the hills, so she kind of surprised them, she introduced them to baby.
00:32Everyone was really excited, Parvesh particularly, to see his mom again, but they were all very
00:38respectful of her space and and how protective of a mom she was, so it went better than we could
00:45have hoped for.
00:49One of the things that I was most excited about seeing was
00:55the interaction between Parvesh and Anandi, his little sister. She was really excitable. She went
01:03charging right after him, wanted to play. I think it was exciting for her to see a rhino that was
01:09maybe
01:10smaller than her mom, but a little bit bigger than her, so it was a lot of fun for everybody.
01:15Parvesh
01:15was such an awesome older brother, so he totally let Anandi just go right after him. He ran away,
01:23was real playful, but I think more than anything he was just really excited to see his mom after being
01:30away from her for two months and now a little baby sister. Anandi is definitely one of the most confident
01:36calves I've ever seen. Her little strut out on the exhibit kind of reminded me of someone with her
01:42shoulders back and their head held up high, and her spunky attitude we noticed right after she was born,
01:49so her name Anandi means joyful, and that's something that we're excited to see her express her attitude
01:56attitude out on exhibit.
