In memory of Sudan. 🦏 The last male northern white rhinoceros died on Monday... At 45, Sudan was an elderly rhino, and his death was not unexpected. Hunted to near-extinction, just two northern white rhinos now remain: Najin, Sudan’s daughter, and Fatu, his granddaughter, both at a conservancy. “This is a creature that didn’t fail in evolution,” said Thomas Hildebrandt, head of reproduction management at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin and one of the project’s leaders. “It’s in this situation because of us. Northern white rhinos, a subspecies of the more populous southern white rhinos, once roamed the grasslands of east and central Africa. In 1960, there were approximately 2,000. “Sudan is an extreme symbol of human disregard for nature,” said Jan Stejskal, director of international projects at the Dvur Kralove Zoo in the Czech Republic, where Sudan spent most of his life. “He survived extinction of his kind in the wild only thanks to living in a zoo.” 💔 (Info from NY Times.) #earthlings #loveoneanother #govegan #savetheworld #vegan #sudan #sudantherhino #rhino #🦏 #extinction #💔 #friendsnotfood #savetheanimals #bekind #goodbye #sad #animals #animalwelfare #animalrights #nytimes #foodforthought #doodle #sketch #cartoon