After Coming So Close to Recovering, Northern White Rhino is Nearly Extinct

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2 deaths in the last 3 months have left only 5 survivors; breeding almost saved the species until poaching decimated the survivors

Conservationists are dealing with some very sad news this Monday. The San Diego Zoo, one of America's largest zoological parks, has announced the death of Angalifu, a male northern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni).

I. One of the Last of His Kind

The male, age 40 (born in 1974), was a favorite with visitors of the zoo's Safari Park. The death leaves just one known surviving male of the subspecies. And there's only four females left, as well.

Angalifu, whose name means "one who listens intensely", was loaned from the Khartoum Zoo in Sudan, one of the last countries that had small populations of the beast left in the wild in the 1970s.

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