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Scientists’ new bid to save rhino from extinction

Tourism CS Najib Balala with 'Sudan' at Ol Pejeta Conservancy. (Photo: File/Standard)

The last male northern white rhino on earth named Sudan has joined dating app Tinder as part of fundraising efforts by conservationists to save the species from extinction.

Sudan is unable to mate due to old age, it is 43. It lives at Ol Pejeta Conservancy with two females, Najin and Fatu, the only other remaining northern white rhinos.

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