Rhinoceros: Sunny Leone

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Male of the extinct D. s. lasiotis with a large front horn,^[43] London Zoo around 1904

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Sumatran rhinoceros wallowing

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The female D. s. lasiotis "Begum", which was shown in London Zoo from 15 February 1872 to 31 August 1900

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The preserved remains of the last Sumatran rhinoceros in captivity by the 1970s, a female called "Subur" which died in 1972. "Subur" ironically means "fertile" in Malay.

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Sumatran Rhino

The smallest of all rhinos, the Sumatran rhino is rapidly running out of space and time. It currently competes with the Javan rhino for the unenviable title of most threatened rhino species.

There are more Sumatran rhinos than Javan. But there are fewer than 100 and Sumatran rhinos are more threatened by poaching. The species was declared extinct in the wild in Malaysia in 2015.

Andalas's birth was the first successful captive birth of a Sumatran rhino in 112 years

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Javan rhinoceros

 

R. s. sondaicus in the London Zoo from March 1874 until January 1885

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Captive Javan rhino, around 1900

 

 

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Java's Ujung Kulon National Park is the home of all remaining Javan rhinos.

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A Dutch hunter with a dead R. s. sondaicus in Ujung Kulon, 1895

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Head of a male R. s. annamiticusshot in Perak on the Malay Peninsula

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In captivity

A Javan rhinoceros has not been exhibited in a zoo for over a century. In the 19th century, at least four rhinos were exhibited in Adelaide, Calcutta, and London. At least 22 Javan rhinos have been documented as having been kept in captivity; the true number is possibly greater, as the species was sometimes confused with the Indian rhinoceros.

The Javan rhinoceros never fared well in captivity. The oldest lived to be 20, about half the age that the rhinos can reach in the wild. No records are known of a captive rhino giving birth. The last captive Javan rhino died at the Adelaide Zoo in Australia in 1907, where the species was so little known that it had been exhibited as an Indian rhinoceros.