Monday, January 2, 2012
allcreatures: Photograph: Abdul Hamid Ahmad/AFP/Getty Images The capture in Borneo last week of Puntung, a female aged between 10 and 12, has raised hopes that it may be possible to pull the Sumatran rhino back from the brink of extinction. Puntung is to be paired with Tam, a lone captive male, at the Tabin wildlife reserve in Sabah, north Borneo. It is hoped that a relationship between the two Sumatran rhinos, a notoriously solitary species, will blossom and the couple will breed, thus helping to reinvigorate the animal’s dwindling population. “This is now the very last chance to save this species, one of the most ancient forms of mammal,” said Laurentius Ambu, director of the Sabah wildlife department.

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Photograph: Abdul Hamid Ahmad/AFP/Getty Images

The capture in Borneo last week of Puntung, a female aged between 10 and 12, has raised hopes that it may be possible to pull the Sumatran rhino back from the brink of extinction. Puntung is to be paired with Tam, a lone captive male, at the Tabin wildlife reserve in Sabah, north Borneo. It is hoped that a relationship between the two Sumatran rhinos, a notoriously solitary species, will blossom and the couple will breed, thus helping to reinvigorate the animal’s dwindling population. “This is now the very last chance to save this species, one of the most ancient forms of mammal,” said Laurentius Ambu, director of the Sabah wildlife department.

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