![]() Breeding Īfter 1980, the northern white rhinos were wiped out in Uganda and Sudan, and 13 were left in Garamba National Park in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo). ![]() Two years later they were joined by Nasima, who originated from Uganda but came from Knowsley Safari Park near Prescot, England, and Saut was later lent to San Diego Zoo in the United States. The zoo was the only one in the world where northern white rhinos had successfully given birth, with the last calf being born in 2000. In 1975 the group, including Sudan, was shipped to the Dvůr Králové Zoo for their northern white rhinoceros display. The zoo was specializing in African fauna and already had the largest collection outside of Africa. The Dvůr Králové Zoo and their Chipperfield partners were then criticized for the capture. For many environmentalists, leaving the animals in nature was the only acceptable way of preserving the already rare subspecies. The number of northern white rhinos was already considered to be only around 700 animals in the wild. The captured group comprised two males (Sudan and Saut) and four females (Nola, Nuri, Nadi and Nesari). Capture in Africa Ī group of six northern white rhinoceros, including the two-year-old Sudan, were captured in Shambe, South Sudan by animal trappers employed by Chipperfield's Circus in February 1975 working under agreement with Josef Vágner, the then-director of the Dvůr Králové Zoo in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). Sudan was euthanised on 19 March 2018, after suffering from "age-related complications". At the time of his death, he was one of only three living northern white rhinoceroses in the world, and the last known male of his subspecies. Sudan (1973 – 19 March 2018) was a captive northern white rhinoceros ( Ceratotherium simum cottoni) that lived at the Safari Park Dvůr Králové in the Czech Republic from 1975 to 2009 and the rest of his life at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Laikipia, Kenya. Last known male of his subspecies in the world
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