The world's two most honored "ladies", they receive 24-hour armed bodyguard protection, treatment far more than any of the world's heads of state.
But these two "ladies" is not human, but the world's only two remaining North African white rhinoceros.w
The tens of thousands of white rhinos that once ran across the vast expanses of North Africa are now long gone.
The humans who are responsible for all this are now protecting the last two North African white rhinos, should we say they are lucky or unlucky?
A population must have a sufficient number of males and females to reproduce, and with only two females left, the North African white rhinoceros can now be declared extinct.
The only two remaining females are being used as live specimens.
Is there really no way to save the North African white rhinoceros?
Can humans only watch these two female rhinoceroses go senile and die, and thus the entire North African white rhino go extinct?
The North African white rhinoceros, a subspecies of the white rhinoceros species, is the largest of the five species of rhinoceros that now exist in the world.
It weighs between 1.4 and 1.6 tons, is more than 3 meters long, and stands about 1.7 meters tall at the shoulder.
It also has the longest horn in the rhino family, with the longest recorded at 1.58 meters.
In addition to the longest horn, the North African white rhinoceros also has a second small horn.
The majestic rhino horn of the North African white rhino has attracted the attention of unscrupulous individuals.
Having one of these rhino horns as a collection can show off their excellent hunting skills as well as their prestigious status.
Since the 1970s, the North African white rhinoceros population has been declining year by year, and in 2003, their wild population numbered only five to ten individuals.
We all know that animals choose to stop breeding when they perceive the harshness of their surroundings.
The only remaining North African white rhinos may have realized their tragic fate and have chosen not to participate in breeding.
These individuals in the wild then gradually die of old age.
In 2015, there were only three North African white rhinos left in the world, one male and two females.
And they were given high hopes by humans, yet there was a delay in the birth of a baby rhino.
In 2018, the last male North African white rhino on earth, Sudan, died in Kenya.
This means that the North African white rhino, a subspecies of white rhino, is completely extinct in the wild.
When the northern white rhinoceros was not completely extinct, scientists noticed that these rhinoceroses were very depressed.
Even when it was breeding season, they did not have a very strong desire to reproduce and were walking sadly on the grass.
Scientists explain that animals can actually be stressed, and when the stress is too much animals will stop reproducing.
It is likely that in his later years, Sultan suffered great psychological stress, so much so that when he was examined, his sperm count was found to be decreasing.
Sultan is gone, and with him the future of the North African white rhinoceros.
When the last two female rhinos pass away, the North African white rhino will be completely integrated into history.