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Tierpark Berlin got the pair Zulu and Kunzi, also born in 1959/60, in 1964. Kunzi died in 1970 after the bull had injured her. Her replacement, delivered the same year, lived only a few days. In 1971 Messrs. Ruhe delivered two female white rhinos; but one cow was given back to thein very soon, and it was impossible to get the second cow, Lotzi, accustomed to the bull. So Zulu had to move to Lodz Zoo, Poland, where he is still living, now 38 years old. Dresden Zoo lent the male Mtandaiie, born in 1962, to Tierpark Berlin in 1989. Three other animals were integrated into the group from 1992 on. A female, Kifaru, born in 1982 at San Diego Wild Animal Park, arrived at the Tierpark in 1992 from Halle Zoo, and 1.1 animals, born at the Wild Animal Park in 1992, arrived in 1994. The female died of a circulatory breakdown one year later, so today the Tierpark holds 2.2 white rhinos. So far no white rhinos have been bred in either Berlin zoo; probably the fact that they have been kept in pairs is the main reason for this failure.
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Rhinos in Berlin
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