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Due to their size, adult white rhinos have no natural predators (other than humans), [42] and even young rhinos are rarely attacked or preyed on due to the mother's presence and their tough skin. One exceptional, successful attack was perpetrated by a lion pride on a sick bull white rhinoceros, which weighed 1,540 kg (3,400 lb), and occurred in ...
White rhinos face significant threats from poachers because of the demand for their horns. ©meunierd/Shutterstock.com. The white rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum, is the second-largest land animal ...
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 southern white rhino pair at Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, Zambia. The southern white rhino lives in the grasslands, savannahs, and shrublands of southern Africa, ranging from South Africa to Zambia. About 98.5% of southern white rhino live in just five countries: South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Uganda.
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 ...
In 2018, the last male northern white rhino died, leaving behind only two sterile females and seemingly spelling the end of the species. A new study, which analyzed the living skin cells of 12 ...
This is Nola, a female northern white rhinoceros. She is one of only five northern white rhinos left in the world and the only one left in the U.S. She is too old to breed and there are also no other survivning members of her species that are capable of breeding. Thus, her speceices, is in effect, excint. Camera manufacturer: Canon: Camera model
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 ...