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(Des Moines, IA) -- Des Moines' Blank Park Zoo is welcoming a new member of an endangered species.
Ajani Joe, known as AJ, is an eastern black rhino and comes to Des Moines from Cincinnati. He was born in August of 2020. The Blank Park Zoo has welcomed rhinos since 2012 in an effort to increase the rhino population. Poaching led to an over 90 percent decline in the eastern black rhino population between 1970 and the early 1990s.
Visitors can see AJ in the Prairie Meadows Rhino Savannah.