Father of the Year: Rhino Donates Blood Each Week to His Unborn Calf
— a black rhino at the Cincinnati Zoo — is clearly embracing the role. a baby early next month and the father-to-be has been donating his blood for the last nine weeks without complaint. and the zoo is collecting it in the event that the mother is unable to properly raise the calf. “We're banking plasma from Faru as a safety in case first-time-mom Seyia is not able to care for her baby,” said Christina Gorsuch, the Cincinnati Zoo's curator of mammals, said in a statement. “The hope is that the calf will nurse and be raised by her mom, but ...
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