Overview
- Kapuki gave birth at 4:52 a.m. Thursday at the zoo’s Regenstein African Journey.
- The newborn weighed about 60 pounds and took her first steps roughly 90 minutes after birth.
- Zoo officials report both are doing well, with several weeks off exhibit ahead and the calf’s name still to come.
- This is Kapuki’s third calf at Lincoln Park Zoo and her first with 21-year-old male Utenzi.
- The critically endangered eastern black rhinoceros lost about 98% of its population between 1960 and 1995, with roughly 1,000 in the wild and 55 in North American zoos before this birth.