Chester Zoo Rhino Celebrates First Birthday

Oct 30, 2009
By Kelly Pentland

Chester Zoo's Eastern Black Rhinoceros, Asani, celebrated his first birthday on Thursday with a special treat.

 Eastern Black Rhino

Asani celebrated his special day with a carrot, beetroot, banana and courgette cake made by his keepers.

The calf whose name is Swahili for rebellious has doubled in size since his birth on 29 October, 2008.

Asani was the first Black Rhino to be born at Chester Zoo in ten years. His birth was significant as Eastern Black Rhinos are an endangered species.