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Will and Kate Feed Rhinos, Elephants on Indian Safari
Britain's Duke and Duchess of Cambridge took a jeep safari Wednesday through an Indian national park that is home to endangered rhinos.

Britain's Prince William and Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, take an open vehicle safari inside the Kaziranga National Park, east of Gauhati in India's northeastern Assam state, on April 13. They rode in an open-topped jeep through the national park, spotting a pair of rhinos in a lagoon, as well as water buffalo and swamp deer.

William and Kate feed baby rhinos at the Kaziranga National Park. The royal couple spent several hours at the park in hopes of drawing attention to the plight of endangered animals, including the park's rare, one-horned rhinos. The park is home to 2,200 of the rhinos, more than two-thirds of the world's dwindling population.





Kate pets a rhino at the Center for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation at Kaziranga National Park.
The thick-skinned, one-horned Indian rhinoceros is one of five species in the world. Global conservation group WWF estimates that fewer than 3,000 of the animals survive today. They are found mostly in northeastern India, with a few hundred in neighboring Nepal.


William and Kate ride in an open-topped jeep at Kaziranga National Park on April 13.