They’re actually light gray in color, and the word white in their name derives from the Afrikaans word weit, which means wide. We hope that this species' sustainable North American population can serve as a backstop to extinction in their native range. At Virginia Safari Park, our rhinoceroses are all southern white rhinos, which are native to Africa. We are committed to this species long-term and plan to expand our population of these birds in the future to educate and inspire guests at our park for decades to come. Do you want to know what animals you can watch and feed in Virginia Safari park in 2020 Watch our video and you will learn everything about the Village walk. Virginia Safari Park is capitalizing on our success with this species and is working cooperatively with other zoos to maximize genetic diversity and the number of birds produced in the population. Located in scenic Natural Bridge, Virginia the 180-acre park is home to over 1,000 exotic animals from 6 continents. We were the only ZAA accredited facility to hatch and raise this species in the time frame and produced 45% of the chicks successfully hatched in the regional population. Through these husbandry methods, we have successfully produced four chicks from 2018-2021. Additionally, we regularly employ the use of whole carcass feeding to the birds, which is enriching, helps social structure, and is nutritionally beneficial. Birds in our breeding group are fully flighted, which we feel is a crucial component to the success of our breeding program.
The safari drive was so much fun, and the park. Ruppell's griffon vultures are a communal nesting species, so we knew that successful breeding would require multiple pairs living in as natural and undisturbed of a setting as possible. Virginia Safari Park was an incredible experience Seeing the animals up close and feeding them made my day. Two pairs of sub-adult vultures were sourced from the Republic of Guinea in West Africa and arrived in the U.S. With only a limited number of birds in the regional population, we decided to import new founder stock to augment the population already in the United States. Given the past success we have had with rare species across all taxa, we wanted to employ our expertise to help this critically endangered vulture species. Virginia Safari Park committed in 2012 to making the Ruppell's griffon vulture a focus species for our conservation breeding efforts. Virginia Safari Park was recognized recently by the Zoological Association of America for its breakthrough in successful breeding of Ruppell's Griffon Vulture.
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