Last Male Northern White Rhino Sudan featured on Google Doodle, know why

On Sunday, December 20, Google Doodle celebrated Sudan, last male rrn white rhiceros in world. stunning illustration looks back on this day, in 2009, when Sudan and three or white rhis arrived at ir new home at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, a wildlife sanctuary in Kenya. Before se rhis were moved, species h been declared extinct in wild. Re on to kw more about Sudan.

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Is rrn White Rhi extinct?

A report in Ecologist reveals that poachers hunted rrn white rhis to brink of extinction in 1970s and 1980s.  giant grazers’ horns were harvested for use in tritional Chinese medicine. y were also used in making ornamental dagger handles for booming Yemeni market for sharp, stabby status symbols. 

ground-up rhi horn is exactly same stuff as ground-up fingernails, and studies later revealed that it’s t actually a useful medicine. However, Sudan was one of luckiest white rhis. t only did he live to old but also fared two daughters. 

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However, life in wild h t been very easy for Sudan, ar report in Forbes Magazine, reveals that he h dodged poachers’ bullets mostly because, in 1976, conservationists whisked him from wilds of sourn Sudan to a zoo in what was n Czechoslovakia. Back home in Sudan, rrn white rhis fell by thousands. Sudan returned to Africa from Czechoslovakia 23 years later, on December 20, in 2009. He was accompanied by his daughter and granddaughter, along with an unrelated male rhi, were last of ir kind in world. However, Sudan passed away in 2018.

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Sudan's death: How did Sudan Die?

Forbes report reveals that after coming back to his homeland, Sudan lived out rest of his days at Ol Pejeta Conservancy wildlife sanctuary in Kenya. elderly rhi even outlived his younger male companion, Suni, who died in 2014. However, by 2018, Sudan’s bones and muscles were too weak to hold him up. He also h a collection of skin wounds that refused to heal. Hence, veterinarians decided most humane option was to euthanize him. Sudan’s euthanisation only left only Najin and Fatu, Sudan’s daughter and granddaughter respectively, as last rrn white rhis ever to walk Earth. Sudan was put to sleep and he passed away at old of 45.

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