Google dedicates today's doodle 20 December 2020 to Sudan, the last male northern white rhino
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himWe told you the story of Sudan, the last male northern white rhino died on March 19, 2018 at the age of 45.
Today, December 20, the day when Sudan arrived in the Kenyan sanctuary "Ol Pejeta Conservancy" in 2009, Google has decided to pay homage to him with a doodle, as a symbol of the efforts that are made on a daily basis to safeguard rhinos. But also a way to remind all of us that unfortunately many species are at risk of extinction.
Dead Sudan, the last male northern white rhino
Sudan was transferred to the Ol Pejeta nature reserve from a zoo in Czechoslovakia and then the Czech Republic, where he lived for 33 years. By now very few specimens remained and he was the last northern white male. She made three cubs in his life, but only two females survived.
At the moment only two females remain alive, the daughter and granddaughter of Sudan, and efforts are being made to save the subspecies through in vitro fertilization.
Subspecies that once inhabited the lands of Uganda, Chad, Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and then drastically decreased over the years also due to the poaching of the 70s and 80s. Suffice it to say that in 1960 there were still 2000 specimens.
SOURCE: Google
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