Cotswold Wildlife Park welcomes white rhino calf Markus

A wildlife park has welcomed a baby white rhino in the “only birth of its kind in the UK in 2025”.

Markus is now part of a group of eight rhinos, known as a crash, at the park and is the 12th calf to be born there in the space of 12 years.

Cotswold Wildlife Park, in Oxfordshire, said Markus was the only white rhino born in the UK this year, adding that the event was caught on camera.

It said the calf was healthy and nursing well from his mother Nancy, who has had seven calves with breeding male Monty.