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2019-12-29 15:24:02
Dar es Salaam: A rhino believed to the world's oldest has died at the age of 57 in a Tanzanian conservation area, authorities confirmed on Sunday.
Black rhinos have been decimated by poaching and only around 5500 now survive.Credit:Shutterstock
Fausta, a female black rhino, died of natural causes in captivity on Friday in the Ngorongoro Crater.
"Records show that Fausta lived [longer] than any rhino in the world and survived in the Ngorongoro, free-ranging, for more than 54 years before it was kept in a sanctuary for the last three years of its life in 2016," the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority said in a statement.