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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Fausta, which recently died in Tanzania was the world’s oldest?
A
Elephant
B
Rhino
C
Turtle
D
Tiger
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -“Records show that Fausta lived longer than any rhino in the world and survived in the Ngorongoro, free-ranging, for more than 54 years” before she was moved to a sanctuary in 2016, said the statement.

Detailed explanation-2: -World’s Oldest White Rhino, a ‘Good Giant’ Who Played With Hippos, Dies at 54.

Detailed explanation-3: -The oldest definitive record of the White Rhinoceros is during the mid-Early Pleistocene at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, around 1.8 Ma.

Detailed explanation-4: -The African Rhino Specialist Group (AfRSG) of the IUCN’s Species Survival Commission (SSC) released a report in 2022, The African and Asian Rhinoceroses - Status, Conservation and Trade, which estimates there are currently 22, 137 rhinos in Africa: 6, 195 black rhinos and 15, 942 white rhinos.

Detailed explanation-5: -The species was first named Rhinoceros bicornis by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema naturae in 1837.

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