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White Rhinoceros
Ceratotherium simum
The white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is the largest rhino and the second-largest land mammal, with bulls reaching 2.3 tonnes. Everything about its head is built for grazing: a broad, square, flat-edged upper lip that crops short grass like a mower, a long head carried low,…
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- The Northern white rhinoceros subspecies is functionally extinct, with only two known individuals remaining, both of which are females.
- A rhino's horn has no bone core at all; it is compacted keratin, and it regrows if cut, which is why rangers dehorn rhinos to make them worthless to poachers. The southern white rhino recovered from fewer than a hundred animals to over 10,000, while the northern white is down to two elderly females. White rhinos leave communal dung heaps called middens, which function as noticeboards where every rhino in the area reads and adds to the local news. The "white" in its name is almost certainly not a mistranslation of the Dutch for "wide", though the story is repeated in every guidebook.
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