WHITE RHINOCEROS
Ceratotherium simum simum
This white rhino was very alert at noticing us, vanishing into the bush in a split second.
Waterberg Plateau Park,
Namibia, July 1996
WHITE RHINOCEROS
Ceratotherium simum simum
This white rhino was very alert at noticing us, vanishing into the bush in a split second.
Waterberg Plateau Park,
Namibia, July 1996
The white rhino, the second-largest land mammal, is a grazer and has a wide, square-lipped mouth (hence the name).
It also has a large hump on the neck and is found in open woodland in Botswana (23 falling), Kenya (137 rising),
Namibia (141 rising), South Africa (7913 rising), Swaziland (50 rising), and Zimbabwe (167 falling).
The subspecies C.s. cottoni is found only in the DRC (Congo), and is estimated at 25 (falling).
Matopo Hills, Zimbabwe, July 1996
By contrast, the smaller black rhino is a browser and has a hook-lipped mouth. It is less social than the white rhino and is mainly solitary. Its habitat is that of bushed areas, covering a much larger geographical area (from Cameroon to South Africa), albeit being more severely endangered than the white rhino with its total wild population estimated at 2600.
