Source: Overseas Network
The world's longest-lived wild black rhino Fosta (Source: cbs)
Overseas network on December 29, recently, 57 years old, the world's longest-lived wild black rhinoceros died in Tanzania.
CBS news on the 28th said that the world's longest-lived free-range black rhino is called fausta, and in the last 3 years of its life, it was spent in captivity in the reserve. According to the Ngorongoro Reserve Authority, Fosta is a female black rhino who died in the reserve due to natural causes and has lived in the wild for most of her life.
Fosta was first discovered by scientists in 1965, when it was only three years old. It remained healthy until it was seriously injured after multiple attacks by hyenas and was sent to a protected area in captivity in 2016. Before being sent to the reserve, Falta had serious problems with her vision, making it more difficult for it to survive in the wild. Fosta also never gave birth to a baby rhinoceros.
Conservation experts say Falstaff has been documented to live longer than any other rhino in the world and has been stocked in Ngorongoro for more than 54 years. At the same time, experts also said that the lifespan of wild rhinos is about 37 years to 43 years old, while the lifespan of captive rhinos can exceed 50 years.
The black rhino is a critically endangered animal that is endangered by illegal hunting and habitat loss. According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), only about 5,500 black rhinos are still alive in the wild. (Overseas Network/Zhang Qi, Internship Compilation/Zheng Xiuqi)
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