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Description
The White Rhino: The white rhino's name derives from the Dutch "weit," meaning wide, a reference to its wide, square muzzle adapted for grazing. The white rhino, which is actually grey, has a pronounced hump on the neck and a long face.
The Black Rhino: The black, or hooked-lipped rhino, along with all other rhino species, is an odd-toed ungulate (three toes on each foot). It has a thick, hairless, grey hide. Both the black and white rhino have two horns, the longer of which sits at the front of the nose.
Size: The rhinoceros stands about 60 inches at the shoulder.
Weight: Black Rhino: 1 to 1½ tons.
White Rhino: over 2 tons.
Habitat: Grassland and open savannahs. Black rhinos have various habitats, but mainly areas with dense, woody vegetation. White rhinos live in savannahs with water holes, mud wallows and shade trees.
Diet: Vegetarian. Black Rhino - browser. White Rhino - grazer.
Diet Description: The black rhino is a browser, with a triangular-shaped upper lip ending in a mobile grasping point. It eats a large variety of vegetation, including leaves, buds and shoots of plants, bushes and trees. The white rhino is a grazer feeding on grasses.
Socialisation: Rhinos live in home ranges that sometimes overlap with each other. Feeding grounds, water holes and wallows may be shared. The black rhino is usually solitary. The white rhino tends to be much more gregarious. Rhinos are also rather ill-tempered and have become more so in areas where they have been constantly disturbed. While their eyesight is poor, which is why they will often charge without apparent reason, their sense of smell and hearing are very good.
They have an extended "vocabulary" of growls, grunts, squeaks, snorts and bellows. When attacking, the rhino lowers its head, snorts, breaks into a gallop reaching speeds of 30 miles an hour, and gores or strikes powerful blows with its horns. Still, for all its bulk, the rhino is very agile and can quickly turn in a small space.
The rhino has a symbiotic relationship with oxpeckers, also called tick birds. In Swahili the tick bird is named "askari wa kifaru," meaning "the rhino's guard." The bird eats ticks it finds on the rhino and noisily warns of danger. Although the birds also eat blood from sores on the rhino's skin and thus obstruct healing, they are still tolerated
Lifespan: 35 to 40 years.
Reproduction: Young are born after a gestation period of 16 months.
Predators: Humans. Man is the cause of the demise of the rhino. In the wild, the adult black or white rhino has no true natural predators and, despite its size and antagonistic reputation, it is extremely easy for man to kill. A creature of habit that lives in a well-defined home range, it usually goes to water holes daily, where it is easily ambushed. The dramatic decline in rhino is unfortunate in an era of increasing conservation but efforts are underway to save the rhino from extinction.
This week a bit of our wildlife here in SA.
Have a great Monday...Hugs
Comments (36)
angelbearzs
that is aweosme niceimage :-)
Cimaira
Wonderful image and very interesting information.
lior
Thank you for these informations! A so stunning image as always! Hugs Lior
jendellas
Great image & interesting piece, thanks.
Rainastorm
Gosh what a neat animal...cool image!
RodolfoCiminelli
Excellent shot and great postwork my friend.....!!!
frymarkdesign
beautiful work
renecyberdoc
great tribute to the rhino and useful information,well done antoinette.
Darkglass
You learn something new ever day!! & a great image very creative work!!
lyron
Great info and fantastic work!!
2121
wonderful words and image, very imformative as well
claude19
Your splendid illustration of the white rhinoceros, makes me think of an advertising which pass currently on the television screens, where a rhinoceros is seen courrir after a lion, and striking it down. An autrecout length is made with a hippopotamus!!! SPLENDID as always your wild animals!
Black-Carrie
Great image and interesting informations! Excellent done!
allnaydi
Beautiful image and information Antoinette! I'm definitely looking forward to the rest of the wildlife week!
MagikUnicorn
Gorgeous animal
flavia49
excellent picture!!!
Dragonluna1
Wonderful!!
3x3
lovely composition my friend x 5+
magnus073
Antoinette this tribute to the magnificent Rhino was amazing and I enjoyed every word of the background
Faemike55
Great image and wonderful information! thank you very much for both
DreamersWish
I love the image of the beautiful creature! Powerful they are. Well done!
Pankaj
A mountain of info, then some shall say her at rendo. you only get art to see.(feel like as I'm on Discovery cannel. grin) Am I smelling a new series here? Beautifully set in scene!!!!!
lunchlady
Awesome info and image Antoinette! I've always had a soft spot in my heart for rhino's since I watched a "MacGyver" episode YEARS ago about the poaching that goes on for their horns. Magnificent image!
UteBigSmile
Great Info Antoinette, the texture used here is stunning! +++ Hug's Ute
A_Sunbeam
Great - the texture is very effective!
missgrin
Wonderful image...
lorddarkwolf
super cool! sad though that they are still declining
miashadows
Very beautiful and interisting work !
sandra46
superb composition!
flaviok
Brilhante esplicação, magnifica obra minha amiga, aplausos (5)