19th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
A gentle Giant being tuched by her caretaker.

The northern white rhino is all but extinct. The two last male died several years ago. Two females are still with us, but too feeble to bear babies. In an Italian lab their eggs are now artificially fertilised by sperm from the three late males, and kept at minus 196 celsius, in hopes that surrogate rhinos from another sub species can carry the northern white back from the brink. A gentle Giant being tuched by her caretaker.

Photo Detail
Date Uploaded: 11.2021
Photo Location: Nanyuki, Kenya
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
Copyright: © Matjaz Krivic