With the death of a 44 - year - old male named Angalifu , there are only five northern white rhinoceros leave in the earth , according to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park , whichtweetedthe news along with the above picture on Sunday . He came to California from the Khartoum Zoo in Sudan in August 1990,U - T San Diego reports . He decease of old long time .
" Angalifu ’s expiry is a wonderful loss to all of us , " park curator Randy Riechessaid in a assertion to AP . " Not only because he was well beloved here at the ballpark but also because his dying brings this wonderful species one stone’s throw closer to extermination . "
The northernwhite rhinoceros(Ceratotherium simum cottoni ) , also known as the hearty - lipped rhino , once live throughout parts of Uganda , Chad , Sudan , Central African Republic , and Democratic Republic of the Congo . As the second expectant land animal , they can reach nearly two meters ( six foot ) in height , and the Male can weigh up to 3,600 kilogram ( almost 8,000 pound ) . But their horns are esteem for dagger handles and as aphrodisiac , and poach gangs have obliterated the species in the last five or so decade .
The remaining five are receive at the San Diego Zoo ( a female person name Nola ) , Dvur Kralove Zoo in the Czech Republic , and three in a preserve in Kenya , Washington Post reports . The three in Kenya – a male named Sudan and two females nominate Najin and Fatu – were post to Kenya in hope that they ’d breed in a more natural setting .
attempt to twin Angalifu with Nola have been unsuccessful , and just last calendar week , preservationists at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya said that their one male person and two female will not reproduce course . " Gauging the estrus oscillation of the female is difficult,”Rieches tells the Los Angeles Times . " The rhinoceros is one of the coinage that we ’re still figure out on to hone artificial insemination . " In vitro impregnation might be the only promise to keep the metal money alive .
Sizeable populations of the southern white rhinoceros ( C. s. simum ) , aconservation success news report , can be notice in South Africa , with small reintroduced populations living throughout the southern one-half of the continent . One of these female may become a foster mother for the northern subspecies .
