The world's oldest captive white rhino, South African-born Sana, has died at the age of 55, the French zoo that she called home for the last 26 years said Thursday.
Born in 1964 in the Umfolozi National Park in South Africa's eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, the southern white rhino was transported to Europe seven years later as a zoo attraction.
Sana lived in several parks in
Germany before arriving in 1993 at Planete Sauvage, a zoo in western
France near the city of Nantes that had opened the previous year.