Toronto Zoo welcomes rhino calf as its first newborn animal of 2018

TORONTO — The Toronto Zoo says a greater one-horned rhinoceros calf is its first newborn animal of 2018.

The zoo says 13-year-old rhino Ashakiran gave birth to a male calf on Thursday after a pregnancy that lasted 16 months.

This is the fifth greater one-horned rhino birth in the Toronto Zoo’s history.

Ashakiran gave birth to another calf in February 2016, while a white rhino was born at the zoo in December 2017.