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The white rhinoceros, white rhino or square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is the largest extant species of rhinoceros.It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of all rhino species.
A northern white rhinoceros near the equator during translocation to Ol Pejeta Conservancy. One of the northern white rhinos translocated to Ol Pejeta was living in a semiwild state. 2014 VOA report about the last three individuals. There are now only two northern white rhinos left in the world: Najin, a female, was born in captivity in 1989.
A rhinoceros (/ r aɪ ˈ n ɒ s ər ə s / ry-NOSS-ə-rəss; from Ancient Greek ῥινόκερως (rhinókerōs) 'nose-horned'; from ῥίς (rhis) 'nose' and κέρας (kéras) 'horn'; [1] pl.: rhinoceros or rhinoceroses), commonly abbreviated to rhino, is a member of any of the five extant species (or numerous extinct species) of odd-toed ungulates (perissodactyls) in the family ...
For the past half-century, the story of the northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) has been a sad one.In the 1970s, some 700 of these rhinos roamed their native range in Central Africa ...
The white rhinoceros is the largest living perissodactyl. Perissodactyla (/ p ə ˌ r ɪ s oʊ ˈ d æ k t ɪ l ə /, from Ancient Greek περισσός, perissós 'odd' and δάκτυλος, dáktylos 'finger, toe' [3]), or odd-toed ungulates, is an order of ungulates.
Some authors have recognised the species Ceratotherium germanoafricanum for remains spanning around 3-1 million years ago in East Africa and suggest that this species may be ancestral to the living white rhinoceros, though other authors have considered it a subspecies of the white rhinoceros or assigned these remains to other species like C ...
The Big Five. In Africa, the Big Five game animals are the lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant, and African buffalo. [1] The term was coined by big-game hunters to refer to the five most difficult animals in Africa to hunt on foot, [2] [3] [4] but is now more widely used by game viewing tourists and safari tour operators.
Hannah, a 13-year-old white rhinoceros, has delivered a newborn calf in a rare zoo birth for the almost endangered species. The arrival of the male calf, named Silverio, two weeks ago marked the ...