African white rhino dies in Assam state zoo
Mohan, 50-year-old African white rhino died on Tuesday night, was brought to the state zoo of the north eastern Indian state for Rs 50,000 from US in 1974.
A top forest official said this rhino had actually exceeded the average lifespan of rhinos.
“Generally, a rhino lives for 45 years but Mohan was aged almost 50 years,” the forest official said.
Mohan was one of the big crowd pullers in the state zoo.
In last July 16, Swati, a Royal Bengal tigress was died at an age of 20-year.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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