A greater one-horned rhino calf has been born in Manas National Park in Assam, making a rescued rhino called Ganga a grandmother, the Times of India reports.
Ganga was just four months old when she was pulled from the Brahmaputra floods in 2004. She was hand-reared for almost three years at a rehabilitation centre run by IFAW and the Wildlife Trust of India, then moved to Manas in 2008 and released into the wild in 2010. That was part of a programme to restore rhinos to the park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, after they had died out there.
Her daughter, Ganga-A, was born and raised in Manas and has now had a calf of her own in the Bansbari range. Forest officials say the youngster is healthy. Assam’s chief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, hailed three generations now thriving in the wild.
Source: The Times of India