A rhino calf in Manas makes rescued Ganga a grandmother
Ganga-A, born in the wild at Manas, has a healthy calf in the Bansbari range. Her mother was a flood orphan hand-reared and released in 2010.
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A greater one-horned rhino calf has been born in Manas National Park, and the birth extends the family of Ganga, a rhino rescued in the 2004 floods. The Times of India reported it on October 31, 2026. A forest official said the calf is healthy, in the care of the forest department, in the Bansbari range, and was born about 10 to 15 days earlier.
The mother is Ganga-A, born and raised in Manas. Officials believe she is Ganga's first daughter. Ganga was rescued as a four-month-old calf in 2004 and hand-reared for nearly three years at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation, run by the International Fund for Animal Welfare and the Wildlife Trust of India under the forest department. In 2008 she was moved, with two other females, Mainao and Jamuna, into a specially built enclosure in Manas. Rhinos had become locally extinct there. After about three years of settling in, Ganga was released into the wild in 2010.
Assam's chief minister, writing on social media, described one rescued rhino becoming three generations in the wild. The report is this calf and that family line. It does not give a new park-wide population.
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A baby greater one-horned rhino was born in Manas National Park in Assam, India. The Times of India reported it on October 31, 2026. The calf is healthy and is being watched in the Bansbari part of the park. It was born about 10 to 15 days earlier. The mother, Ganga-A, was born in Manas. Her mother, Ganga, was rescued as a four-month-old calf in the 2004 floods, raised by people, and released in 2010. Rhinos had disappeared from Manas before that. This calf is a third generation. It is one family, not a new total for the whole park.
- What does it mean that a rhino raised by people now has a grandchild born in the wild?
- Why might a park need people to watch a new calf without crowding it?
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