New White Rhinoceros Facility

Branding the New Feature

ZUFARI

The New White Rhinoceros Facility

• Design: • Containment.• Substrates.• Housing.

•Management:• Diet composition and delivery. • Establishing a bachelor herd.• Desensitisation. • Mixing species.• Enrichment• Training.

• Look back:• Snags.• Veterinary issues.• Conclusion.

Design: Containment.

• Stockade

• Bunding

• Cattle Grids

• Electric swing barriers

• Hotwiring

Design: Substrates.

• Concrete• Sand• Bark• Pasture?

Design: Housing.

• Four stalls (~64m2)

• Barn (~500m2)

• Internal gates remote/electric

Management: Diet.

• Hay• Grazing• Rhino Nuts• Pasture Nuts• Alfalfa• Linseed

Management: Integrating bachelors.

• Three immature bulls

• From within Europe.

Management: Integrating bachelors.

• Rotated in adjacent stalls

• Introduce two at a time?

• Initial sparring, no serious fights.

• Now very settled.

Management: Training.

• Raceway.• Target training.

• Stand on mark.

Management: Mixing Species.

• Blesbok.• Opportunity for

seclusion.• Zebra?

Management: Desensitisation.

• Exposed to sights, sounds and smells of trucks,– Outside of

enclosure– Within

enclosure

Management: Enrichment.

• Boomer Balls

• Tyres

• Bouys

• Scratching brushes

• Freestyle

Look Back: Snags.

• Muddying grazing• Bark beds• Raceway• Access to

external gates• “Splash zones”• Drinkers

Conclusion: Veterinary Issues.

• Scratches

• Diarrhoea

• Dry skin

• Split horn

Conclusions?

•Animals•Visitors•Zoo staff•Ride staff.

Questions?