The calf was born yesterday at Khoirabari under Bhuyanpara Range of Manas, about 176-km from Guwahati, Manas Tiger Project director Anindiya Swargiary told PTI today.
The gender of the calf was not immediately known, Swargiary said.
A patrolling team chanced upon the calf yesterday in a remote area of the range.
The mother was translocated from Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, near here, under the joint initiative 'Indian Rhino Vision, 2020' of the Assam Forest Department, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), International Rhino Foundation besides, US Fish and Wildlife Service.
The birth was significant as it showed that the rhinos, shifted from their natural habitat, had adopted to their new environment and started breeding, Park sources said.
The Vision envisages to attain a rhino population of 3000 in the state in seven protected areas for the animal, besides its two natural habitats KNP and MNP.
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Since its inception in 2008, the sources said, ten rhinos were translocated from Pobitora and another eight from Kaziranga and reintroduced into the MNP.
Poachers killed four rhinos and seriously injured another in Kaziranga during the last three days with one shot dead and its horn removed and another left bleeding in the wee hours today, barely a day after two others were killed, besides another on Tuesday in Kaziranga National Park.