First Zoo Webcam Goes Live
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PrintThe National Zoological Park provides its first live webcam of an animal birth when a Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros named Mechi gives birth to Chitwan on September 18, 1996, at 4:00 am in the Elephant House. He weighs 138 lbs. at the time of his birth.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
September 18, 1996