Toby, the world’s oldest white rhino dies aged 54
By AFP
13 October 2021 |
9:03 am
Toby, the world's oldest white rhino, has died at the age of 54 in a zoo in northern Italy. He is to be embalmed and put on display at the MuSe science museum in Trento, where he will join Blanco, a white lion from the zoo who died five years ago.
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