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.

White Rhinoceros Media

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  White rhinos in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda

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  A photo taken of Rhinoceros eating in a national park in South Africa.

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  Rhino in Solio Reserve

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  Two white rhinoceroses at the Waterberg Plateau in northern Namibia

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  A northern white rhinoceros crosses the equator during translocation to Ol Pejeta Conservancy

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  A diagram showing the size of small and large white rhino individuals compared to humans.

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  White rhinos have three distinct toes.

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  Ndlovu Camp, Hlane Royal National Park, SWAZILAND

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  Closeup of skin at Lisbon Zoo

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  Chromosome set of a female northern white rhino. Fibroblast derived iPS cells. G-banding and giemsa staining.

• White rhino female and young grazing in the Pilanesberg National Park

• Southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum) filmed in Tobu Zoo, Japan in 2012.