Buffalo Zoo's miracle baby rhino Monica moving to San Diego
By Mark Sommer, Aaron Besecker
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This is Monica, looking straight on in front, with her mom Tashi. Monica was born at the Buffalo Zoo to mother Tashi on June 5, 2014. At the time Monica was considered a miracle of science, the result of artificial insemination (AI.) She was the first offspring for a male rhino who never contributed to the genetics of the Indian rhino population during his lifetime. Monica’s father, Jimmy, died at the Cincinnati Zoo in 2004, nearly a full decade before the AI procedure took place, using his frozen DNA. Monica is currently the only surviving Indian rhino from AI.Monica will be moving to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park which houses the largest Indian rhinos group in captivity. This was on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. (Robert Kirkham/Buffalo News)
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Monica, an Indian rhino, was born at the Buffalo Zoo in June 2014 and is expected to leave for San Diego by the end of the month.(Mark Mulville/Buffalo News file photo)
Monica, a 2-year-old Indian rhinoceros at the Buffalo Zoo whose birth here was heralded as a scientific achievement, is leaving for San Diego by the end of the month.
This is Monica, looking straight on in front, with her mom Tashi. Monica was born at the Buffalo Zoo to mother Tashi on June 5, 2014. At the time Monica was considered a miracle of science, the result of artificial insemination (AI.) She was the first offspring for a male rhino who never contributed to the genetics of the Indian rhino population during his lifetime. Monica’s father, Jimmy, died at the Cincinnati Zoo in 2004, nearly a full decade before the AI procedure took place, using his frozen DNA. Monica is currently the only surviving Indian rhino from AI.Monica will be moving to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park which houses the largest Indian rhinos group in captivity. This was on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. (Robert Kirkham/Buffalo News)
Monica, an Indian rhino, was born at the Buffalo Zoo in June 2014 and is expected to leave for San Diego by the end of the month.(Mark Mulville/Buffalo News file photo)
