Keepers at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park gave five-week-old Rhino calf Shomili, or Mili, as keepers call her, a bottle feeding as part of her daily nutritional routine this morning. Animal care has been giving the Greater One-horned Rhino calf bottle feedings since first time mother Sundari has not been able to give her calf all of the nutrition that she needs.

Sundari is a young mother and her milk is not coming in the way keepers expected. Animal care staff made the decision to give a supplemental bottle feeding twice a day to make sure Shomili gets the nutrition a young, growing Rhino requires.

Safari Park keepers give a little TLC to a Greater One-horned Rhino calf, in the form of a soothing mud bath.

Photo credits: Ken Bohn / San Diego Zoo Safari Park

Weighing 128 pounds when she was born December 13, Mili now weighs 245 pounds and is developing right on track, keepers report.

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