Nature: The Last Rhino is a poignant look into the dwindling world of Sudan, the last male northern white rhinoceros. It premieres at 7 p.m. Wednesday on AETN.
Now 43 years old and half blind, he's living out his days under the 24-hour watch of an armed guard on the Ol Pejeta conservancy in Kenya, along with the only two female northern white rhinos, who cannot bear young. An international team of researchers is working to save them from extinction by using female southern white rhinos as surrogates.
The white rhinoceros, found only in Africa, has two distinct subspecies -- the northern and the southern. They are the largest land mammals after the elephant and the only rhino to have a square, wide upper lip, which helps it graze.
-- Rosemary Boggs
Style on 02/18/2018