Keepers at a Scottish safari park were alerted to a rhino birth by a webcam viewer from Cyprus who called to say the animal's waters had broken.
The southern white rhino, named Dot, gave birth to a female calf on 21 December at Blair Drummond Safari Park, near Stirling.
Park keepers set up a webcam to record the event, but were expecting it to take place early in the morning.
The webcam viewer called at midday to say Dot had gone into labour.
She gave birth 15 minutes later, watched by the large mammal keepers and other staff at the park.
The rhino calf, named Ailsa after one of the keepers, is one of only eight southern white rhino born in Europe in 2009 and has just been unveiled to the public.
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