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Your morning adorable: Black rhinoceros calf born at Germany’s Berlin Zoo

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If Germany’s Dresden Zoo is your one-stop baby orangutan shop, we suppose that makes the Berlin Zoo rhino-calf central. Berlin welcomed an Indian rhinoceros calf last month, and on Feb. 7, it celebrated another new addition: a black rhinoceros calf.

The calf, which still hasn’t been named, seems disinclined to leave the side of its mother, Maburi, just yet.

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In 1970, about 65,000 black rhinos lived in the wild in Africa. But by the early 1990s, well over 90% of them were gone, primarily due to poaching. In recent years, the effort to renew the species has made some impressive strides; the population nearly doubled in slightly more than a decade!

More photos of the calf after the jump!

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-- Lindsay Barnett

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