RENNES, France: The world’s oldest captive white rhino, South African-born Sana, has died at the age of 55, the French zoo that she called home for the last 26 years said Thursday. The life expectancy of white rhinos in the wild is about 50 years, according to the Save the Rhino advocacy group. The last male northern white rhino, Sudan, died in Kenya last year, leaving two sole captive female survivors, neither able to carry a calf. No northern white rhinos are left in the wild. Save the Rhino says around 20,000 southern white rhinos – Sana’s tribe – are left in the world.

Source: New Strait Times November 14, 2019 13:18 UTC