ZOO Dvůr Králové northern white rhino

[Nisha]

One of world´s last white rhinoceros died in Czech zoo - press - ?eskéNoviny.cz

Nesari has passed away. Only Nabire remains in Europe

 

[Maguari]

One of world´s last white rhinoceros died in Czech zoo - press - ?eskéNoviny.cz

Nesari has passed away. Only Nabire remains in Europe

Very sad news. I suppose in practical terms this doesn't make a difference to the Northern White's (very slim) survival chances as Nesari wasn't a potential breeding animal but a great shame nonetheless.

 

[Chlidonias]

Europe's last northern white rhino gets a friend - St. Petersburg Times

9 July 2011

Lonely rhino gets a close companion

She's the last northern white rhinoceros on view anywhere in Europe — but zoo keepers in Dvur Kralove, Czech Republic, are hoping lonely Nabire will find solace with a southern rhino 11 years her senior. Another northern white, Nesari, died in her sleep in May, age 39. To help her cope with the loss of Nesari, keepers have teamed up Nabire, 27, with a male rhino. Natal, 38, is a southern white, another rhino subspecies. On Friday, they were seen snuggling, lazing in the sun and eating and sleeping in their enclosure. Poaching in the wilds of Africa has critically decimated the number of rhinoceri, but zoo officials say the friendship between Nabire and Natal will remain platonic. Nabire can't mate because of "pathological changes to her breeding organs," said Jiri Hruby, the curator of mammals at the zoo.

 

[kiang]

NABIRE sadly died on the evening of Monday 27th July.

http://www.zoodvurkralove.cz/cs/nov...ti-severnich-bilych-nosorozcu-uhynula/#closed

 

[LaughingDove]

NABIRE sadly died on the evening of Monday 27th July.

http://www.zoodvurkralove.cz/cs/nov...ti-severnich-bilych-nosorozcu-uhynula/#closed

Very sad... This leaves Europe without any Northern White Rhinos, and I fear that it's just a matter of time before the same is true for the whole world.

 

[Maguari]

NABIRE sadly died on the evening of Monday 27th July.

http://www.zoodvurkralove.cz/cs/nov...ti-severnich-bilych-nosorozcu-uhynula/#closed

Sad news indeed. Thanks for posting the article though - quite a bit of information on attempts to further the line.

 

[TeaLovingDave]

Well, that's a bugger but a long-expected one.

 

[Pertinax]

Sad news indeed. Thanks for posting the article though - quite a bit of information on attempts to further the line.

If only they can get as far as creating Northern embryos, there are plenty of Southern White females around that could potentially act as 'host mothers' In that respect its fortunate there is another so closely related species available. But on the other hand, time must surely be running out for the last existing Northerns now.