Sinaloa Zookeepers Help Save Colombian Drug Lord’s Hippos
Recently, Colombia declared the hippos an invasive species because they reproduced without any human intervention, and nobody took care of them
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The Precarious Fate of the Sumatran Rhino
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS With less than 80 Sumatran rhinoceroses left in the wild, and only a few in captivity, the Sumatran rhino, the smallest of the five species of this endangered family of odd-toed ungulates, was officially declared extinct in Malaysia in 2015. The two-horned Asian rhino currently competes with the Javan rhino (of which there are about 100 left
Read moreWitness to Extinction
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Last month, Sudan, the world’s last surviving male northern white rhino, died after months of poor health. He was 45 years old and lived at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. Now, there are only two female northern white rhinos left on Earth, Sudan’s daughter and granddaughter. Witnessing a major mammal species become extinct before our very
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