Welcome back to another week and another update from the team here at Safari Zoo.

We have celebrated Zahra’s second Birthday!

Zahra was born to father Muzungu and Mum Zuki, and they all reside here in the 'crash' at Safari Zoo.

The meaning of Zahra is ‘flower’, which is perfect with her being born near Remembrance Day.

We are very lucky to have six white rhino’s living here at Safari Zoo, this includes Huubke, Muzungu, Zuki, Zahra, Ntombi and Spud.

Our rhino keepers can tell them apart from their overall size and from all of their distinctive features.

Muzungu is the chunkiest out of the boys, he also has a bigger head than Huubke and the base of his horn is a lot bigger and it is also more square.

Huubke is taller and thinner than Muzungu is.

Spud is the smaller of the boys and he also has the fluffiest ears.

The girls can generally be identified by the bumps that are located on the back of their necks.

Zahra is the smallest of the girls and she has a double bump, Zuki however has two distinctive bumps and Ntombi has three subtle bumps on the back of her neck.

Our Rhinos can sleep safely here at Safari Zoo, but unfortunately for our friends in the wild, they are not this fortunate.

Each of the five remaining Rhino Species are heading towards extinction with only 69 Javan Rhinos remaining, under 100 Sumatran Rhinos and less than 5,000 Black Rhinos.

Southern White rhinos have recovered from a near extinction population of 50-100 in the early 1900’s, to a population over 17,000, but still more than two African Rhinos are killed each day. The current population figures, poaching trends and threats mean all rhinos are now recognised by the IUCN to be facing an extremely real risk of extinction.