Rhino Resource Center

Welcome to the world's largest online rhinoceros library dedicated to assisting research and conservation efforts globally.

Are rhinos aggressive?

Despite their fearsome reputation and ability to charge at 50 kilometres per hour, rhinos are not naturally aggressive animals. They're more accurately described as defensive, preferring to be left alone to graze peacefully.

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1856 Edwards London Zoo 2nd 134 unicornis Miss Bett 1856

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The Rhino Image Library

The Rhino Image Library provides 7755 rhino related images.

Mennecy Box of Clara

Rear of Mennecy Porcelain Box

Mennecy French soft-paste porcelain box

Ridinger 1748 Rear view

Ridinger 1748 double horn

London Society of Apothecaries

Reconstruction of woolly rhino

Dallet 1892 Rinoceronte disputato

Male rhino in captivity

Javan Rhino in Mainz museum

Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus in Hanoi

Pallenberg bronze of two rhinos

Pallenberg 1904 bronze

Burch: Rhinoceros nunquam vurtus ab hoste redit

Bouverie Goddard: Javan in London Zoo

Javan Rhino in London 1874

Dixon: Javan in London Zoo

Javan rhino in London Zoo 1884

Horsfield drawing of Javan rhino

Horsfield: Javan rhinoceros

Rabier 1939: elephant and rhino fight

Rabier 1939: rhino fights elephant and lion

Rabier 1939: Rhino asleep

Rabier 1939: rhino, hippo, goose

Rabier 1939: Rhino and goose

Rabier 193: monkeys throwing rings

Rabier 1939: Rhino helping a baby

Rabier 1939: Gedeon resting on rhino

Rabier 1925 Gedeon the goose

Rabier 1934 Rhino and crocodile

Rabier 1934 Crocodile and rhinoceros

Rabier 1933 Caraco

Rabier 1933 Domestic rhinoceros

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The Rhino Document Library

The Rhino Document Library contains a total of 30702 references.

Eames, J.; Tamukedde, P.W. 1979. Editorial – The parks looted and the game shot out in Uganda. Africana 6 (12): 3-4.

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WWF Kenya; East African Wildlife Society; African Wildlife Leadership Foundation; Elsa Trust; Sheldrick Memorial Fund 1979. Project Rhino – help rescue the rhino. Africana 6 (12): front cover, 31-32, 3 figures.

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IUCN African Elephant and Rhino Specialist Group; WWF; Douglas Hamilton, I.; Cummings, D. 1981. Wankie sends S.O.S. for White rhino. Africana 8 (3): 36.

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Lee, H.K,; Woodley, B. 1979. Book review: Elephants at sundown by Dennis Holman. Africana 6 (12): 25, 1 figure.

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Anonymous 1979. The giants fight…. Africana 6 (12): 20, 1 figure.

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Mollel, C.L.; Makacha, S. 1979. Scientists track crater’s missing rhinos. Africana 6 (12): 23-24.

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Goot, A.C. van der; Martin, G.B.; Millar, R.P.; Paris, M.C.J.; Ganswindt, A. 2015. Profiling patterns of fecal 20-oxopregnane concentrations during ovarian cycles in free-ranging southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum). Animal Reproduction Science 161: 89-95. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.anireprosci.2015.08.009

Staphorst, L. 2026. The contaminated English words ‘arnoceros’, ‘rhinoster’, and ‘rhinaster’ vis-à-vis Eben Venter’s Decima and Eugène Marais’s Khoesan Dwaalstories. Notes and Queries: 1-2. doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjag168

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Cerreta, A.; Stalford, K.; Qurollo, B.A.; Clarke, S.; Karounos, M.; Birkenheuer, A.J. 2026. Detection of vector-borne infections in nondomestic mammals at a single zoological institution. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 57 (4): 810-819. doi.org/10.1638/2026-0084

Stein, R.M.; Shrader, A.M. 2026. Does the resource dispersion hypothesis predict grouping behaviour in a solitary megaherbivore? Journal of Animal Ecology: 1-11. doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.70389

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Guggisberg, C.A.W. 1979. It’s still the greatest show on earth. Africana 7 (1): 14-23, 8 figures.

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Jenkins, P. 1977. David Sheldrick dies. Africana 6 (6): v-vi, 2 figures.

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Rodrigues, J. 1980. Battle goes on but game still in danger. Africana 7 (2): front cover, 3.

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Martin, E.B. 1980. Book review – The End of the Game – a pictorial essay of Tsavo today by Peter H. Beard. Africana 7 (2): 10.

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WWF South Africa; South African Nature Foundation 1980. Operation Genesis (in Pilanesberg Nature Reserve). Africana 7 (2): 6.

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Javan Rhino

Greater One-horned Rhino

Nile Rhino

Southern White Rhino

Black Rhino

Sumatran Rhino

Fossil Rhino

Rhino collections

History of Clara

Clara the Rhinoceros tells the marvellous story of the most famous rhinoceros in history.

Geraads Fossil Rhino Database

Old World Neogene and Quaternary rhino-bearing localities.

RRC Newsletters

All newsletters from the start in 2005 were edited and composed by Dr. Kees Rookmaaker, Editor of the Rhino Resource Center.

Carino Database

East Asian and West African Rhinos.

Gallery of Modern Art

Rhino Depictions In Contemporary Modern Art.

Announcements

RRC @ 30,000

The RRC has reached another milestone. On 30 March 2026 we reached a grand total of 30,000 references on our website.

Our new website is now online

The Rhino Resource Centre has unveiled its completely redesigned website.

The Rhinoceros of South Asia – DISCOUNT

A book by Kees Rookmaaker with chapters by Joachim K. Bautze and Kelly Enright.

A real 'unicorn' rhino lived alongside modern humans

Elasmotherium sibiricum, the so-called Siberian unicorn, weighed up to 3.5 tonnes and carried a single enormous horn. It was long thought to have died out 200,000 years ago. Radiocarbon dating now shows it survived until at least 39,000 years ago.

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