The Potawatomi Zoo has a new resident drawing attention - a 24-year-old southern white rhinoceros named Frankie. Frankie arrived at the zoo on April 2 from ...

The Potawatomi Zoo has announced that Frankie, a 24-year-old male southern white rhino, arrived on April 2. He weighs about 5,200 pounds and stands about 7 feet tall at the shoulder. The ...

Conservationists have described the revised Black and White Rhino Biodiversity Management Plan (BMP) as a turning point for ...

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Schoeman van Jaarsveld, a 58-year-old lifelong rhino conservationist, was fatally gored by a black rhinoceros during a morning patrol at South Africa’s Samara Karoo Reserve. The rare and sudden attack ...

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“Most of the losses of rhinos to poaching have been experienced in large state-managed protected areas such as Kruger ...

A second southern white rhino calf has been born at The Wilds this year, making this birth a milestone for this rhino conservation program. A female calf was born March 28 to Kali, a 12-year-old ...

Frankie, a male, southern white rhino standing 7-foot tall and weighing 5,200 pounds, is the newest rhino at Potawatomi Zoo.

The revised BMP consolidates earlier standalone frameworks—the Black Rhinoceros BMP (2013) and the White Rhinoceros BMP (2015 ...