Northern White Rhinos – level 1

06-03-2018 07:00

There are five species of the rhino. One of them is the white rhino. There are more types of the white rhino. These are called subspecies.

One of the subspecies is the northern white rhino. It is in terrible danger. There are only three northern white rhinos! One is a male and the two are females.

The male’s name is Sudan. He lives in Kenya. He lives with the females.

Sudan is very old. He is 45 years old. In human years, that is 100 years! He is sick because he is so old. He is going to die soon.

People want to save the northern white rhinos. Experts can make a baby northern white rhino. They can put it in a southern white rhino female.

Difficult words: species (a type of animal), male (a man), female (a woman).

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