The female will weigh about 4,000 pounds. The White Rhino male is slightly larger than the female.Ī male White Rhino will weigh around 5,000 pounds. The coloring ranges from slate grey to a yellowish brown. The White Rhino has a huge body, large head with a short neck and a broad (wide) chest. The name for this species is believed to have come from either the Afrikaans word ‘wyd’ or the Dutch word ‘wijd’ which actually means ‘wide’ and describes the appearance of wide, square lips of this species. On the other hand, the Northern White is considered critically endangered with just two captive females known to exist. There happen to be two subspecies of this rhino – the Southern White and the Northern White and the Southern species had a recorded population in 2013 of well over 20,000. The White Rhinoceros is the most abundant rhino subspecies in the world. As the rhino has a stomach that permits fermenting of food, they can eat more fibrous material when required. Their diet is described as herbivorous which means leafy greens for the most part. Oddly enough, although they have such a massive presence, the rhino brain is quite small for a mammal of its size. Rhinos are some of the largest remaining megafauna with all species known to weight one ton or more. The five species of rhinos that still exist on the planet include the White Rhinoceros, Black Rhinoceros, Indian Rhinoceros, Javan Rhinoceros and Sumatran Rhinoceros. Adults, don’t generally have predators.ģ Species Critically Endangered – Javan, Sumatran & Black rhino.ġ Species Vulnerable – Greater One-Horned rhino Herbivores – Vegetation, fruit, grass, twigs, leavesĬrocodiles, big cats & hyenas can prey on baby rhino. Grasslands, floodplains, swamps, rainforestsĮast & southern Africa, India, Nepal, Malaysia & Indonesia. The word itself comes from the Greek rhinoceros, which translates to mean ‘nose-horned,’ rhinos (nose) and kerato/keras (horn). The name is often abbreviated to just Rhino. The word Rhinoceros is used to describe any one of the five extant species and several extinct species of the members of the family Rhinocerotidae.
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