A female 25 years old named Iman had cancer, she lived in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Kalimantan.
“Iman died much earlier than we expected, but we realized that she was beginning to experience severe pain,” said Augustine Tuuga, director of Sabah’s wildlife department.
The Sumatran rhino was recognized as extinct in the wild of Malaysia in 2015. In May of this year, the last male of this species died.
In March, the last male northern white rhino named Sudan died in Kenya. Then the 45-year-old animal died due to an age-related disease that led to degenerative changes in muscles and bones and skin damage.