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Kruger enjoys having his horn brushed as well as the sensitive area where his horn meets the skin.
We use a long handled brush to rub his sensitive feet.
White Rhinoceros
Ceratotherium simum
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White Rhinoceros - Ceratotherium simum
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White Rhinoceros
Ceratotherium simum
Also Called: Square-lipped rhinoceros
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White Rhinoceros
Mammal. The white rhinoceros is the second largest land mammal in the world, after the elephant. White rhinos can weigh over 2,000 kilograms (2 tons) and stand as tall as 1.8 meters (6 feet).
White Rhinoceros
Ceratotherium simum
The White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is also known as the Square-lipped Rhinoceros. The latter name is really more appropriate since this animal is not white at all.
White Rhinoceros
The closely related White and Black Rhinos live in southern and southeastern Africa, with the largest populations of both species in the country of South Africa, according to the International Rhino Foundation.
White Rhinoceros Range
Fast Facts
Type: Mammal Diet: Herbivore Size: Head and body, 11 to 13.75 ft (3.4 to 4.2 m); tail, 20 to 27.
The white rhinoceros is not actually white, but light grey. The name was derived from the Afrikaans word wyt, so perhaps it would more properly be called "square-lipped rhinoceros: because wyt refers to the wide, ...
White rhinoceros
White rhinos are named after a corruption of their Afrikaans name 'weit' (meaning wide), describing their jaw rather than their colour. They have two horns on their head, the front one being the larger.
White Rhinoceros
Two subspecies at opposite ends of the survival scale
Common Name: White rhinoceros, square-lipped rhinoceros; Rhinocéros blanc(Fr); Rinoceronte(Sp) ...
White Rhinoceros
Ceratotherium simum
Range:
Divided into two subspecies. Northern subspecies is restricted in the wild to Garamba National Park in Zaire. Southern subspecies located in several nations in southern Africa, primarily South Africa.
Southern white rhinoceros are herbivores, meaning they only eat plant material. The white rhino is a grazer preferring short grasses. At the Zoo, the white rhino consumes nearly 40 lbs of timothy grass hay daily.
White Rhinoceros (Africa) (Ceratotherium simum)
Population: 17,000 Status: Near-Threatened Species
Black Rhinoceros (Africa) (Diceros bicornis)
Population: 3,500 Status: Critically Endangered Species ...
The White Rhinoceros is the largest of all five rhinoceros species - about 1.7 metres tall and up to three and a half tonnes in weight. It has a longer and heavier head than the other species.
White rhinoceros, woolly rhinoceros (extinct)
CLASS: Mammalia (mammal)
ORDER: Perissodactyla (nonruminant mammals with odd-numbered toes) ...
Southern White Rhinoceros
The largest of all rhinoceros species, the southern white rhino weighs 7000-9000 lbs. They are distinguished by a large shoulder hump and wide, squared lips that grasp and cut the short grasses they like to eat.
The status of the southern white rhinoceros on private land in S.A. Pachyderm 34:33-34.
Condy, PR, 1973. The population status, social behaviour and daily activity pattern of the white rhino in the Kyle National Park. M.Sc.
The white, or square-lipped, rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum, is divided into two subspecies: the northern white rhinoceros, which survives in the wild only in the Garamba National Park in the Congo, and the southern white rhinoceros, ...
5 metres (5 ft) tall at the shoulder and weighting from 1,500 kg to 3,200, they are -together with the White Rhinoceros-, the next largest land animal after the elephant.
: Two subspecies of white rhinoceros are recognized, the northern and the southern. South Africa remains the stronghold for the southern species, Ceratotherium simum simum.
- The hippo is similar in size to the white rhinoceros.
- Hippos can store two days' worth of grass in their stomachs and can go up to three weeks without eating, if needed.
Tribe three - African species: The two African species, the White Rhinoceros and the Black Rhinoceros, diverged during the early Pliocene ...
It is the third-largest land mammal by weight (between 1½ and 3 tonnes), behind the white rhinoceros (1½ to 3½ tonnes) and both species of elephant (3 to 9 tonnes). Despite its stocky shape and short legs, it can easily outrun a human.
Our guide Albanus spotted this adult male white rhinoceros from far across a plain, and drove to the spot where he predicted the rhino would cross the car track.
Probably called Black Rhinoceros to differentiate it from the White Rhinoceros. It is likely that "white" is a misunderstanding of the Afrikaans word "weit" (wide, as in "wide-lipped"). Skin coloration between the two species is the same.
White rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum)
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Przewalski's horse (Equus ferus przewalskii)
Lowland tapir (Tapirus terrestris)
Asian tapir (Tapirus indicus)
Grevy's zebra (Equus grevyi) ...
I did not choose any species that is heavily domesticated - no camels, no wild ass or horse - nor did I include species whose population now consists almost entirely of re-introduced animals (e.g., White Rhinoceros, American Bison).
African Elephant Cheetah Fennec Fox Giraffe Hippopotamus Lion Meerkat Plains Zebra Ring-Tailed Lemur Western Lowland Gorilla White Rhinoceros ...
Tapirus Tapirus bairdii Baird's tapir, Central American tapir Tapirus indicus Asian tapir Tapirus pinchaque Mountain tapir Tapirus terrestris Brazilian tapir, lowland tapir Family Rhinocerotidae Ceratotherium Ceratotherium simum White rhinoceros ...
Southern White Rhinoceros ( Ceratotherium simum simum )
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 See also: Rhinoceros, Rhino, Elephant, Ceratotherium, Black rhinoceros
  
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