TAIPEI (The China Submit) — A Taiwanese white rhino named Emma is getting ready to seek out love abroad as she units to turn out to be the primary rhino despatched overseas for breeding in Taiwan.
Born in Hsinchu’s Leofoo Safari Park in December 2015, five-year-old Emma is ready to journey to Japan’s Tobu Zoo (東武動物公園) in Saitama (埼玉市) the place a 10-year-old rhino, Moran (莫蘭), is ready to turn out to be her first suitor.
Because the host of the biggest and most profitable rhino-breeding program in Asia, Leofoo Safari Park imported 8 rhinos from Africa in 1979 and managed to extend the herd to 23 rhinos as of 2021.
To organize Emma for the journey, Leofoo Safari Park has began having zookeepers incorporate Japanese directions to her instructions resembling “come” and “no” in keeping with native media.
Leofoo park officers defined that this was to assist her alter faster when she arrives in Japan someday in late April.
As well as, Emma was additionally skilled to get accustomed to “out of doors sounds” together with plane engines and vans, to arrange her for the upcoming journey.
The Chuang Foo Basis (莊福文化教育基金會) additionally reported that Emma has efficiently spent a peaceable evening in her journey carriage, and added {that a} veterinarian will arrive in Japan two weeks previous to Emma to make sure that every little thing is ready for her rehabilitation.