The Houston Zoo lost its last rhinoceros this week:
Bu, a gentle Southern white rhino who enjoyed a good scratching from keepers and a roll in his mud wallow, has died from complications of old age.
He was 39.
His passing early Thursday leaves the Houston Zoo without rhinos for the first time since Bu and his companion Marci (short for Marcibit) arrived at the zoo in the summer of 1971.
The story is lengthy, but it never addresses whether zoo officials have any plans to acquire replacement rhinos.
Oh well, at least folks paying steadily increasing admission fees can enjoy new toilet art. How World Class!
