Southern white rhinoceros Sindi dies at Louisville Zoo at age 41

A rhinoceros who spent 4 decades astatine the Louisville Zoo died Wednesday, zoo officials announced successful a quality release.

The confederate achromatic rhinoceros, Sindi, was 41 years old, Louisville Zoo spokesperson Kyle Shepherd said. Sindi was humanely euthanized aft zoo unit noticed a marked diminution successful her wellness this week.

Sindi had been receiving attraction for arthritis and different age-related conditions successful the years starring up to her death. Earlier this week, she started to amusement signs of reduced appetite, lethargy and acute respiratory symptoms.

The squad astatine the Louisville Zoo treated her successful a assortment of ways and took steps to guarantee her comfort, but they yet decided that "humane euthanasia was the astir compassionate prime to supply Sindi with a peaceful end," Shepherd said successful the quality release.

Sindi has lived astatine the Louisville Zoo since 1985.

"These pugnacious decisions are made with a heavy committedness to ensuring the champion prime of beingness for each our animals. Our precedence is their well-being, comfortableness and dignity from the infinitesimal they get until they permission us,” Louisville Zoo Director Dan Maloney said. “We convey our assemblage for loving Sindi arsenic overmuch arsenic we did.”

The confederate achromatic rhinoceros is the 2nd largest onshore mammal successful the satellite aft the elephant and is the largest taxon of rhinoceros, zoo officials said. They unrecorded successful confederate Africa and measurement 4,000-6,000 pounds.

The taxon is considered to beryllium adjacent threatened by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, with colonisation threats driven by poaching to proviso the amerciable commercialized of their horns, Louisville Zoo officials said.

Visitors tin inactive spot Letterman, different rhinoceros who lives astatine the zoo, successful his public-facing situation successful the zoo's Africa Zone.

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