When Zhao Zhengming and the others arrived, the cameraman had already left.
The group of people gathered by the stream.
Li Fan squatted by the stream and chased Guai and the others into the shallow stream, letting the water wash away the mud on their bodies.
The little rhinoceros stood next to Li Fan, eating the tender grass by the stream with its head lowered.
It looked very scary, and its two wet eyes looked very pitiful.
Li Fan shouted to Guai and the others,""Stop playing. Get down and wash the mud off your bodies. Otherwise, don't come up!”
Guai and the others were rolling in the stream and playing happily again.
The little rhinoceros looked at San Mao and his brothers and started to bark as well. It seemed like it wanted to play too!
Li Fan patted its head.
"If you want to play, go ahead. Don't be afraid. They won't hurt you.”
The little rhino timidly walked down and stood beside San Mao.
San Mao sniffed the water and sprayed it onto the little rhinoceros.
"San Mao, don't bully it, take good care of your new friend!"”
San Mao let out an "Ang ~~" sound.
He put his nose on the little rhino's head as if he was putting his arm around its shoulder.
The little rhinoceros soon started playing with them.
The cameraman came down.
He pointed the camera at the animals playing in the creek.
"Ah! As expected, another new animal has arrived!"
"What is this? Is it a rhinoceros?”
"The rhinoceros is here too? Where did you come from?"
"This rhinoceros doesn't look like it's an adult yet. Where are its parents?”
"Why haven't I seen its parents? It can't be alone, right?"
"Why does this little rhino look like a North African white rhino?”
"North African White Rhinoceros? What kind of joke was that? That thing had already been declared extinct in 2018!”
"What are you anxious about? I only said that it looks like him!”
Zhao Zhengming and the others ran over.
When he saw the little rhino playing with San Mao in the stream, he cried out and almost fell into the stream.
Fortunately, the assistant beside him held him up.
He stared at the little rhino with wide eyes.
He then turned to Mark,"That's a North African White Rhino, right? Isn't that right?"
Ma Ke held his glasses and looked again and again.
"It looks very similar, but I'm not sure!”
Everyone walked over together.
"Li, can you ask that little rhino to come over?" Zhao Zhengming asked Li Fan. Let's take a serious look and see if it's really a North African White Rhino!”
Li Fan gave the bear brothers a bath while waving at the little rhinoceros.
"Little friend, come here quickly!”
The little rhino stretched its head into the water and blew a few bubbles before running to Li Fan's side.
The little rhinoceros was here.
Big Hairy, Second Hairy, and Third Hairy followed him.
Li Fan shook off the water droplets and said to the little rhinoceros,"Stand there obediently and don't move.”
He then said to Zhao Zhengming and the others,"Alright, look, but it's a little scared of people now. Don't touch it."”
"Good, good, good! I won't touch it!"
The little rhinoceros stood close to Li Fan, still very afraid of people.
A few experts gathered around and looked around.
"I think it looks like a North African white rhino. What do you think?"”
The experts looked at it for a while and nodded.
"It feels like it!"
"Yes, yes, yes. I think so too.”
Zhao Zhengming and the others only felt that it was similar, but after all, they were not very familiar with the North African White Rhino.
Now, he could only seek help from experts who truly studied rhinoceroses.
Charles was the director of the World Wilderness Research Center. He had many contacts for various species research experts.
"Wait a moment, I'll contact someone to help us take a look."”
He looked at the number on his phone.
Soon, he found an expert in this field and called him.
The expert he called was in Africa's Kennia country.
This expert had been studying the North African White Rhino. He was the one who announced the extinction of the North African White Rhino!
The expert was video-chatting with Charles.
He asked Charles to point the phone at the little rhino and took a picture of it.
A few minutes later.
The expert was very sure that the little rhino was a North African rhino!
"Is it the only North African white rhino left?" Charles asked.”
"Not really," the expert explained."It should be the third one, because we still have two here."”
Charles: "Wasn't it declared extinct before that?”
"Theoretically speaking, it's indeed extinct," the expert said.”
He quickly explained to everyone.
In 2015, there were only three Northern White Rhinoceroses left on Earth, also known as the North African White Rhinoceros.
The three North African White Rhinoceroses were two females and one male.
At that time, the three remaining North African White Rhinoceroses were unable to conceive naturally due to their age and physical condition.
The experts named the male North African white rhino "Sultan."
In 2018, Sultan passed away in Kenya.
In other words, the only remaining male North African White Rhinoceros in the world had died, leaving only two females.
Theoretically speaking, with only two females left, it was even more impossible for them to conceive. The North African White Rhinoceros could be considered to have gone extinct.
Furthermore, the two females were already weak and probably wouldn't be able to hold on for much longer.
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