Port Lympne Zoo. We had trouble persuading her to eat properly during the weeks that followed. She consumed only a few twigs, lucerne hay and fruit each day, though Torgamba had settled in well on the same diet after his arrival. After five weeks her appetite suddenly increased, and she began to eat a wider variety of browse and fruit. Then she stopped eating altogether for five days, only to begin again.
Port Lympne - death of female Subur in 1986. Laboratory tests on various tissues showed that the bacteria Klebsiella pneumoniae was present in the gut in huge numbers. This is an unusual feature in this type of animal.
Port Lympne Zoo. We had trouble persuading her to eat properly during the weeks that followed. She consumed only a few twigs, lucerne hay and fruit each day, though Torgamba had settled in well on the same diet after his arrival. After five weeks her appetite suddenly increased, and she began to eat a wider variety of browse and fruit. Then she stopped eating altogether for five days, only to begin again.
A female Sumatran rhino, 'Subur', was caught in the Sumatran forest on 22nd June 1986, kept in a stockade where she became tame, and then shipped by air to Port Lympne on 26th August 1986. She was intended as a mate for our male 'Torgamba'. Progress was made for two and a half weeks until, unexpectedly, on the morning of Wednesday, 29th October, she was found in great discomfort, constantly lying down and getting up.(she died)
