54-Year-Old Grandpa Toby, the World's Oldest Known White Rhino, Dies at Italian Zoo

Mar. 16, 2025

Photo: Parco Natura Viva/AFP via Getty

A handout photograph realesed by the zoo “Parco Natura Viva”, on October 12, 2021 shows Toby, the world’s oldest white rhino, in its enclosure at the at the zoo in Bussolengo, near Verona, in northern Italy, on April 18, 2019.

Parco Natura Viva, an Italian zoo near Verona, is mourning the loss of a beloved resident.

Parco Natura Viva/AFP via Getty

A handout photograph realesed by the zoo “Parco Natura Viva”, on October 12, 2021 shows Toby, the world’s oldest white rhino, in its enclosure at the at the zoo in Bussolengo, near Verona, in northern Italy, on April 18, 2019.

According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, white rhinos are considered “near threatened,” with an estimated 10,080 left in the wild. The white rhino population comprises two genetically different subspecies, per theWorld Wildlife Fund— southern white rhinos and northern white rhinos.

source: people.com

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