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northern white rhinoceros Map showing the geographic ranges of the five living rhinoceros species across Africa and Asia. Orange areas in southern and eastern Africa represent black rhinoceros range, with purple areas for southern white rhinoceros. Pink highlights the Indian, or greater one-horned, rhinoceros range in northern India and Nepal. Red and green dots in Sumatra and Java indicate remaining strongholds for Sumatran and Javan rhinoceroses, respectively. A magenta dot in central Africa marks the last northern whi “The Demise of the Northern White Rhinoceros”
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northern white rhinoceros As of March 2018, only two northern white rhinoceroses (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) remained in the world.

northern white rhinoceros

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Also known as: Ceratotherium simum cottoni, square-lipped rhinoceros(Show More)
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northern white rhinoceros, (Ceratotherium simum cottoni), critically endangered subspecies of the white rhinoceros and the most endangered animal on Earth. The northern white rhinoceros formerly inhabited South Sudan and adjacent areas of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with its range extending westward into the Central African Republic. The remaining population, two females, resides at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. Most researchers divide white rhinoceroses into two subspecies—the northern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum...

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