The elephant pagoda, a splendid stylistic structure housing rhinos as well as elephants, was erected in 1873. This building was destroyed during World War II in November 1943. After the war Berlin Zoo started to keep rhinos again with the female Arusha, a black rhino acquired by Dr Katharina Heinroth in 1954. At first Arusha lived in the cattle house, but soon she moved to the new elephant house which was opened in the same year. A special rhino house was built in 1964, followed by a second one, for black rhinos only, in 1987 (Kl?s and Kl?s, 1990). Tierpark Berlin was founded in 1954 and opened to the public the following year. Black rhinos were shown there from 1956 on, white rhinos from 1964, and Indian rhinos from 1966. They all settled finally in the Tierpark's pachyderm house, opened in 1989 (Blaszkiewitz, 1992).
It was in 1746 that the first rhinoceros was exhibited in Berlin. This animal, an Indian rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis), was the fifth specimen of its species to come to Europe in modern times. It reached the Netherlands in 1741, and from 1746 it was on show in several towns of central Europe, and also in Berlin's 'Spittelmarkt', where it even attracted the interest of Frederick the Great himself, who came to see the animal (Blaszkiewitz, 1980).
The first white rhino in captivity was the female Zuluana, who arrived at Pretoria Zoo in 1946. In 1963 1.1 southern white rhinos from Umfolozi Reserve in South Africa arrived at Berlin Zoo, the first of their species to be imported into Germany. The bull Hlambamans, born in 1959, is still alive at Berlin Zoo. The cow Kuababa, born in 1960, died in 1992 aged 32 years (Blaszkiewitz, 1993).
