The Oldest wild ass Rathi died on Saturday in Nehru Zoological Park. Rathis was 33 year old and it was the longest surviving Indian wild ass species as per the records.
According Zoo education officer Mr Vara Prasad the life span of wild ass in captivity is around 20 years.
“Rathi was boren in Shakkarabagh zoo in Junagadh in Gujarath in 1977. A pair of male and femal ass Rathi was brough to Hyderabad zoo in 1980. The male wild ass died in 1987.
Rathi was single since then till it died on Saturday for 23 years. It is a rare species as it is now found only in Rann of Kutch in Gujarat,” said Mr Vara Prasad.
He added ,”earlier it was found in Aghanistan and Baluchistan and now endangered. The proposal to translocate them in Thar desert in Rajasthan didn’t take off,”Zoo officials mourned the death of Rathi and paid tributes to it. “It died a natural death,” said the officials.
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