# Rare Baby Sumatran Rhino Born

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-baby-sumatran-rhino-born/626594>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 28, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-baby-sumatran-rhino-born/626594 "2012-06-28T16:06:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-baby-sumatran-rhino-born/626594/1 "2012-06-28T16:06:25Z")

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Story [here](http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/SEAsia/Story/STIStory_814881.html). Nice photo of mother and child. (Is it just me, or does the baby resemble Lonesome George, the century-old tortoise that just died in the Galapagos?)

The fourth birth in captivity in more than 100 years.

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**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-baby-sumatran-rhino-born/626594/2 "2012-06-29T17:46:38Z")

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Welcome to the world, you strange, funny-looking little baby.

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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-baby-sumatran-rhino-born/626594/3 "2012-06-30T02:00:00Z")

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Adorable, I do like baby critter pictures. Probably why I like cheezburger a lot - squee spotter is a lot of fun.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-baby-sumatran-rhino-born/626594/4 "2012-06-30T02:18:10Z")

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I love how the photo caption has to specify which is the mother and which is the baby. Because it totally wouldn’t be obvious at all without that.

(yeah, yeah, I know they’re probably just following their standard style guide on image-captioning, but it’s still funny)

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**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-baby-sumatran-rhino-born/626594/5 "2012-06-30T04:13:34Z")

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I used to think baby rhinos were the most adorable animal babies until I saw some video of a baby musk ox. This little rhino might make me change my mind again. There’s something fascinating about infant forms of gigantic, scary animals.