" Want to have sex what defunctness looks like ? " involve Daniel Schneider . " This is the last male Northern White Rhino . The Last . Nevermore . "
Schnieder , a " Biologist , Diver , Traveler , Observer , Humanist , Activist " according to his Twitter bio , postedthe flick of Sudan the rhinoon Monday . Since then it ’s racked up more than 40,000 like and 40,000 retweets .
Sudan is one of only three Northern White Rhinos left in the world . The other two are Najin , his 28 - year - former girl , and Fatu , his 17 - class - old granddaughter .
The trio and Suni ( a virile Northern White Rhino who snuff it in 2014 aged 34 ) were run from the Czech Republic to theOl Pejeta Conservancyin Kenya in 2009 , where it was hop that an surround nigher to their natural home ground would advance the rhinos to breed . It was later discovered that neither Fatu or Najin are able to multiply naturally and Sudan ’s spermatozoan count is disappointingly blue , theConservancy websitesays .
White rhinos can go to be 50 but their medium long time of dying is 40 . Sudan is already 43 , meaning time is endure out for him and for his species . So , in April of this year , Sudan link up Tinder .
His visibility interpret : " I ’m one of a variety . No seriously , I ’m the last male livid rhinoceros on the planet earth . I do n’t mean to be forward but the lot of my species literally depends on me . I do well under pressure . I wish to eat grass and chill in the clay . No problems . 6 ft marvelous and 5,000 lbs if it matters . "
figure of speech viaImgur
Of course , it was a publicity stunt . The investigator hoped to nurture $ 9 million to fund in vitro fecundation treatment using sperm from Sudan and ballock from either Fatu or Najin .
Poaching may have condemned Sudan ’s species to extinction but elsewhere in Africa , preservation attempt to protect the Southern White Rhino has been a Brobdingnagian achiever . beat back to near extinction by colonial poachers , their number have increase from less than 100 in 1895 toaround 20,000 in 2017 , making them the only rhino metal money to not be list as endangered .
As for the Northern White Rhinos , there is still hope . Conservationists at Ol Pejeta Conservancy desire to raise $ 1 million for fertilization techniques with a GoFundMe campaign called ‘ Make a Rhino ’ .
