IN MEMORIUM 

I was saddened today to learn that one of the six remaining northern white rhinoceroses has died leaving only five worldwide in a species on the brink of extinction.  Angalifu, age 44, died of old age yesterday at our San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park; one final male, Sudan, lives in the Ol Pejeta Conversancy in Kenya..  Nola, one of the remaining five northern white rhinos, lives in our San Diego Wild Animal Park, and two of the remaining females live in the Kenya preserve with Sudan.  Efforts to produce a rhino calf  there have failed.  My BLOG today is dedicated to the memory of Angalifu and to the five rhinos remaining alive on this earth. 

Perhaps a pervasive atmosphere of violence in the world and now Angalifu’s death have heightened my awareness that life on earth is fragile and threatened.  Why can’t we just get along and help each other and all good creatures stay alive?

...Detail from a painting by Aliki Roussin-Croney, an artist born in Athens and living and working now in London. The painting is one of my favorites hanging in the home of my son and son-in-law.  Roussin-Croney's medium is often stucco.