Angalifu, a rare white rhino who was being treated for
age-related conditions is dead – he was 44. Angalifu died over the weekend at
the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, and his death brings the total remaining number
of rare white rhinos on earth to five – one at a zoo in the Czech Republic, one
at the Safari Park, and three in Africa.
According to Randy Rieches, the curator of mammals at the
San Diego Zoo Safari Park, “Angalifu’s death is a tremendous loss to all of us.
Not only because he was well beloved here at the Park but also because his
death brings this wonderful species one step closer to extinction.”
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