How to Use white rhinoceros in a Sentence

white rhinoceros

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• The southern white rhinoceros is the first to be born at the zoo.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2023
• But hope may not be lost for the northern white rhinoceros.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2019
• The northern white rhinoceros has a long road back from the brink of extinction, but not all hope is lost for this subspecies.
  — Elana Glowatz, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2018
• One was the last male northern white rhinoceros — whose name was Sudan — died last year.
  — National Geographic, 10 Dec. 2019
• Sudan, the last living male northern white rhinoceros died at the age of 45.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2021
• The last male northern white rhinoceros in the wild died in 2018, but scientists are scrambling to save the species with donor embryos.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
• For over 20 years, Thomas Hildebrandt has harbored a dream: to save the northern white rhinoceros, the world’s rarest large mammal.
  — Kate Connolloy, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2018
• Nola was a northern white rhinoceros, one of only four that remained by the middle of the last decade, along with Sudan and his kin.
  — Damon Casarez, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2021
• While a real male northern white rhinoceros weighs 5,000 pounds, this one, of course, weighs nothing.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2020
• For example, there are only two northern white rhinoceros left in the world, and both are female.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2023
• In 2017, a white rhinoceros was killed for its horn at the Parc Zoologique de Thoiry outside of Paris — an act that shocked even the most hardened conservationists.
  — Tanya Akim, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• Campbell was a white rhinoceros living on a private reserve, and his killing would be the last hurrah of the now notorious Ndlovu Gang.
  — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
• The group was on the lookout for leopards, but instead had a terrifying encounter with a white rhinoceros.
  — Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• This is the problem facing the northern white rhinoceros, the world’s most endangered mammal.
  — The Economist, 20 Sep. 2019
• Although such hybrid embryos are not pure northern white rhinoceros, the researchers were able to show for the first time that the creation of such embryos is possible.
  — Deutsche Welle, USA TODAY, 5 July 2018
• Sudan, the world’s last male northern white rhinoceros, in his final moments.
  — Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2018
• There are two subspecies of white rhinoceros: southern and northern.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 28 Aug. 2022
• Image When the last male northern white rhinoceros died in March, people mourned the beloved mammal’s step toward extinction.
  — New York Times, 24 May 2018
• Hunters had driven popular game animals, like the white rhinoceros, to the brink of extinction.
  — Saima Sidik, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2021
• At least four of the species Stewart has recorded are now extinct in the wild, including the Panamanian golden frog and northern white rhinoceros.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2022
• Wildlife ranger Joseph Wachira comforts Sudan, the world’s last male northern white rhinoceros, in his final moments.
  — Ernie Mastroianni, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2018
• Guests staying on site can see endangered species, such as the black rhinoceros, Grevy’s zebra — and, most notably, the world’s last northern white rhinoceroses, two females named Najin and Fatu.
  — Hannah Selinger, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2023
• The death last month of the world’s last remaining male northern white rhinoceros was a red flag for the conservation movement and animal lovers everywhere.
  — Robin Ganzert, Fortune, 22 Apr. 2018
• The last male northern white rhinoceros — his name was Sudan — died in March, leaving only two members of the subspecies behind: his daughter and granddaughter.
  — Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2019
• The last male northern white rhinoceros, Sudan, died Monday, leaving only two females alive.
  — Nishan Degnarain, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2018
• At age 45, Sudan was the final progenitor of the earth’s most endangered animal species: the northern white rhinoceros.
  — Damon Casarez, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2021
• The rhino embryo could then be implanted into a surrogate mother, a southern white rhinoceros, who would later give birth to a hybrid calf.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2019
• The Virginia Zoo is welcoming its first baby Southern white rhinoceros.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 21 July 2021
• The southern white rhinoceros is closely related to the northern subspecies and, according to the World Wildlife Fund, is the only surviving rhino species classified as not endangered.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 5 July 2018
• Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park has had a handful of births this year, including a giraffe, a zebra, an aardvark, a porcupine and recently a white rhinoceros.
  — Orlando Sentinel Podcasts, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 12 Oct 2024