"Bargain Rhinos"

The invoices are for $90,000 for six rhinos, plus another $8-9 thousand toward transporting them .

NC Zoo general curator Steve Miller showed me the invoices today, which will be coming back our way soon for payment.

When we first budgeted for Project:Pachyderms here, there were $400,000 set aside to acquire and transport all the elephants and rhinos. The expectation was that the vast majority of that would go to acquiring and transporting the rhinos from out of the country. The more local,White Oak solution was not a prospect at the time.