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Mr. Tengu 👺 (eccehom@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 07:37:19 UTC Mr. Tengu 👺

One of the two remaining northern white #rhinos in the world, guarded 24 hours a day to guard against poachers
Photo: Matjaz Krivic
source: National Geographic
#photography #nature #NationalGeographic #animals
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  @Eccehom With only 2 females existing the species is functionally extinct. However 14 northern white rhino embryos were created through artificial insemination and future carrying by a surrogate mother, probably a southern white rhino. src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_white_rhinoceros#Assisted_reproduction
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    Northern white rhinoceros
    
    The northern white rhinoceros or northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) is one of two subspecies of the white rhinoceros (the other being the southern white rhinoceros). Formerly found in several countries in East and Central Africa south of the Sahara, this subspecies is a grazer in grasslands and savanna woodlands. Since 19 March 2018, there are only two known rhinos of this subspecies left, called Najin and Fatu, both of which are female; barring the existence of unknown or misclassified male northern white rhinos elsewhere in Africa, this makes the subspecies functionally extinct. The two female rhinos belong to the Dvůr Králové Zoo in the Czech Republic but live in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya and are protected round-the-clock by armed guards. According to the latest International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assessment from 2020, the subspecies is considered "Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct in the Wild)." Taxonomy Following the phylogenetic species concept, recent research has suggested the northern white rhinoceros may be an altogether...

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