Mili Meets the Neighbors at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park

Shomili, a four-and-a-half-month-old greater one-horned rhino whose name means beautiful or elegant in Bengali, stuck close to her mother, Sundari, as she was released into the 40-acre Asian Savanna habitat today. Mili, as keepers call her, has been described as highly adventurous and social, and was excited to meet the rest of the Park's eight-member herd. Mili is the 65th greater one-horned rhino born at the Safari Park since 1975, making the Park the foremost breeding facility in the world for this species. Once widespread in Southeast Asia, the greater one-horned rhinoceros now numbers approximately 3,400 and is listed as an endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.