Kansas zoo wants your help naming new black rhino calf

Garden City zoo announces name for new black rhino calf
KWCH Staff
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The Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City is asking for help to name the black rhino calf that was born on January 20.
GARDEN CITY, Kan. -
Update Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021: Garden City’s Lee Richardson Zoo announced that after a week of voting, the results are in and the zoo has a name for its baby black rhino. The critically-endangered black rhino calf is named Ayubu.
“Ayubu is Swahili for perseverance which is a quality a critically endangered species definitely needs,” the zoo said in a news release on the name announcement. The zoo said Ayubu weighed about 90 pounds at birth, For comparison, the zoo said Ayubu’s seven-year-old father weighs 2,570 pounds. Ayubu is spending time with his mother indoors, bonding.

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