How does a truly unique guy meet just the right lady?
Nowadays, he goes online.
But how many responses will he get if his profile reveals that he weighs more than two tons, eats grass, and likes long rolls in the mud?
On top of that, this guy is really picky—there are only two females in the world he would even consider.
Sudan, the last living male northern white rhino, posted a Tinder profile on April 25 as a publicity stunt to help conservationists raise the $9 million needed to start a fertility program.
“Tinder is going to broadcast the launch of a profile for our rhino Sudan,” said Mathieu Plassard,regional manager of Ogilvy Africa.
“It is going to be broadcasted in 190 countries and in 40 languages which is really the first time that Tinder does something like that to that scale,” he said.
Scientists are planning a 10-to-15-year program to save the northern white rhino from extinction.
Neither of the two remaining females, named Najin and Satu, proved to be fertile. Scientists are going to have to remove eggs from these two, artificially inseminate them, raise them in a lab, and then implant them in more common southern white rhino females.
Scientists hope to be able to one day release young white rhinos into Kenya’s Ol Pejeta game preserve—assuming it is safe.
Poachers hunt rhinos for their horns that sell for exorbitant prices on the black market. Sudan, Najin, and Satu are constantly accompanied by armed guards.
In early March poachers broke into the Thoiry Zoo in Paris, France, and killed a young rhino there to steal its horn.
It has become common practice to saw off captive rhinos’ horns to make them safer.
