Rhino killed in Copenhagen Zoo

A hannæsehorn is on Thursday morning killed in the Copenhagen Zoo.

The typing of the park in a press release.

the Rhinoceros, who is the father of the soon as five cubs, was hit by an aggressive skin disease, did he in the course of the last three weeks lost up to 400 pounds.

- We've done everything we could to save our rhino, but it is also our task to assess when enough is enough. We have dealt intensively during the whole period, but the sores in the mouth meant that he lost the desire to eat, says Mads Bertelsen from Copenhagen Zoo on the 23-year-old rhino.

In the press release reads further, that it was a good fertile male, which in recent years has been given time in the females.

- in the Midst of all the sad we may thankfully rejoice that hannæsehornet has been reversed more than 30 years of drought in the næsehornsstalden. First, by becoming a father to a single næsehornsunge and then a further two, which still run around on the Savannah.

And quite recently we could through the hormonanalyser determine that both females are pregnant again. So he leaves a great and lasting impression, says Mads Bertelsen.

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Facts about the rhinoceros:

the Rhino are of the nature southern bredsnudet rhinoceros – also called the white rhino.He is born in a south African national park, with the expected date of birth in 1996. He came to Knuthenborg Safari Park in the year 2000 from south Africa and came to the Zoological Garden in Copenhagen in 2012.He is the father to three cubs in Copenhagen ZOO, and a further two cubs are on the road in 2020.In captivity becomes a rhino typically around 30 years.

Source: the Zoo

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At the Copenhagen Zoo are not quite aware of the skin disease that has helped to take the life of the rhinoceros.

- Basically, we have to do with a violent dermatitis. It is reminiscent of an autoimmune disorder, where he afstøder his own skin, but we do not know the exact cause, says Mads Berthelsen.

- Biopsies have shown that it is reminiscent of a disorder described for the black rhinos 'superficial nectolytic dermatitis', but the vast majority of the 127 described episodes in the black rhino were transient and mild compared with this

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