World's oldest captive white rhino dies

[Still Waters]

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.

Born in 1964 in the Umfolozi National Park in South Africa's eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, the southern white rhino was transported to Europe seven years later as a zoo attraction.

Sana lived in several parks in Germany before arriving in 1993 at Planete Sauvage, a zoo in western France near the city of Nantes that had opened the previous year.

The life expectancy of white rhinos in the wild is about 50 years, according to the Save the Rhino advocacy group.

https://phys.org/news/2019-11-world-oldest-captive-white-rhino.html

[Kittens Are Jerks]

I love rhinos. They have this wonderful majestic and somewhat prehistoric look about them. Shame Sana lived in captivity for so long, but at least it appears she was well-taken care of, especially in her later years when she needed that care most of all.