White rhinoceros

The white rhinoceros or square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is one of the five species of rhinoceros that still exist and is one of the few megafauna species left. It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of all rhino species.

White rhinoceros
White Rhinoceros
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Perissodactyla
Family:	Rhinocerotidae
Genus:	Ceratotherium
Species:	C. simum
Binomial name
Ceratotherium simum (Burchell, 1817)
Subspecies
Ceratotherium simum simum Ceratotherium simum cottoni
The white rhinoceros original range (orange: Northern (C. s. cottoni), green: Southern (C. s. simum)).

White rhinoceroses (Ceratotherium simum) wallowing in mud. 2011, Florida

The northern subspecies has all but died out; the southern is rare.