Rhino Resource Center

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

Rhinos are not as short-sighted as their reputation

Rhinos are famous for terrible eyesight. Measured properly, a black rhino's vision is about one-tenth as sharp as a human's, roughly the same as a rabbit's, and good enough to pick out a person 200 metres away.

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Rhino image of the day

The Rhino Image Library

The Rhino Image Library provides 7665 rhino related images.

“Armour and Grass”

California Hemphillian

Krapf auf der Flucht

Bali statuettes

Javan rhino statuette

Acclimatisation Society – 1865

Punch Almanack 1865

Rookmaaker – SHNH Founder’s Medal

Museum of Pridnestrovie

Petleik Pagoda 11th century

Petleik Pagoda – Myanmar

Toledo 1928 Sada

Kurtz: Clara’s travels map

Cover; Clara the triumphant rhinoceros

Tyndale 1950 Bengal

AMNH 1931 Indian rhino diorama

AMNH 1931 Dumatran diorama

Uganda 1961 black rhino

Cairo 1911 goat

Giza 1911 Rhino and goat

Seshadri 1959 Kaziranga

Seshadri 1959 Kaziranga front view

Dollman 1929 Kaisoot

Willoughby 1889 Kenya

Robbedoes 1956 chased in tree

Robbedoes 1956 Africa chase

Franquin 1956 Robbedoes

Jordan 1919 trading in Kenya

Nile rhino in Powell Cotton Museum

Rhino in India in the mud

Schembeck 1905 raid

Charge by group of black rhino 1905

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The Rhino Document Library

The Rhino Document Library contains a total of 30499 references.

Osthoff, G.; Mason, S.; Schmidt, L.; Tordiffe, A.; Deacon, F. 2026. Comparative 1H-NMR profiling of plasma and serum metabolites in giraffes and white rhinoceroses. Metabolomics 22 (5): 1-10. doi.org/10.1007/s11306-026-02535-0

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Hussain, A.; Khan, M.A. 2026. Rhinoceros from the Pinjor Formation (Pleistocene) of Makwal, Pakistan. Historical Biology 38 (10): 4398–4407. doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2026.2645124

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Arbogast, D.M. 2026. Investigation of three novel physiological biomarkers of rhinoceros wellbeing. Ph.D. dissertation submitted to George Mason University, Fairfax, VA., USA. 1-186.

Isabella, J. 2026. The ghosts of conservation past. Parks Stewardship Forum 42 (3): 565-573. doi.org/10.5070/P5.69177

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Smith, M.S. 2026. Justice through deterrence: media framings of the rhino horn trade in Vietnam. In: Killean, R., Hamilton, M., Lundberg, K. (eds) 2026. Conceptualising justice: a green criminological perspective. Cham, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 203-226. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-19791-7_10

Neupane, B.; Jamaludin, J.; Gautam, A.P.; Schmidt-Vogt, D.; Hogarth, N.J.; Webb, E.L. 2026. Correction: Balancing act: navigating increasing human-wildlife conflict amidst megafauna recovery in the tropical lowlands of Nepal. Scientific Reports 16 (28923): 1-2. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-71293-9

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Neupane, B.; Jamaludin, J.; Gautam, A.P.; Schmidt-Vogt, D.; Hogarth, N.J.; Webb, E.L. 2025. Balancing act: navigating increasing human-wildlife conflict amidst megafauna recovery in the tropical lowlands of Nepal. Scientific Reports 15 (31201): 1-13. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-16707-w

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Green, S.; Thongthum, T.; Pietrucci, D.; Chabuka, L.; Villiers. S. de; Freese, L.; Bassett, M.; et al. 2026. Dietary ecology structures gut microbiome assembly in sympatric wild mammals from Kruger National Park, South Africa. Animal Microbiome 2026: 1-21. doi.org/10.1186/s42523-026-00630-0

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Pandey, N.; Arya, S. 2026. Behavioral patterns of pregnant and non-pregnant Indian one-horned rhinoceros. Journal of Cyber Security 8 (7): 1-13. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21154625

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Kinney, M.E.; Heiar, R.; Heiar, D.; Rodriguez, P.; Peel, M.J. 2026. Hoof lacing in zoo ungulates—indications, technical descriptions, and outcomes in a giant eland (Taurotragus derbianus ), African Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer), and greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis). Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 47 (4): 671-678. doi.org/10.1638/2026-0027

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Niguissie, F.; Benninger, B. 2026. Reassessing the stifle joint stabilization system in southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). Annals of Anatomy 267 Supplement: 71. doi.org/10.1016/j.aanat.2026.153015

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Kovalchuk, O.; Borrani, A.; Mackiewicz, P.; Barkaszi, Z.; Capalbo, C.; Davydenko, S.; Dubikovska, A.; Ratajczak-Skrzatek, U.; Sinitsa, M.; Stefaniak, K.; Krajcarz, M.T.; Mazza, P. 2026. Scythicorhinus vekuai gen. nov. et comb. nov. (Mammalia, Rhinocerotidae) from the Pliocene of Georgia and its implications for the early evolution of Coelodonta and Stephanorhinus. Scientific Reports 16 (21401): 1-20. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-57113-0

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Belles, X. 2026. The rhinoceroses of Durer and Burgkmair: two different visions of the same animal. Animal History 2026: 1-21. doi.org/10.1525/ah.2026.2890921

Uzunidis, A.; Pandolfi, L.; Brugal, J.P. 2026. Stephanorhinus hemitoechus (Mammalia, Rhinocerotidae) from the cave site of Mas des Caves (Lunel‑Viel, SE France, MIS7): demography and ecology of a paleontological cohort. PalZ (Paläontologische Zeitschrift) 2026: 1-19. doi.org/10.1007/s12542-026-00784-x

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Stein, R.M.; Shrader, A.M. 2026. The effects of intra- and inter-specific competition on the population dynamics of black rhinos (Diceros bicornis). Biological Conservation 323 (112114): 1-9. doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2026.112114

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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

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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.

Europe's most famous rhino portrait was wrong for 250 years

In 1515 Albrecht Dürer made a woodcut of a rhinoceros he had never seen. It gave the animal armour plates, scales and a second horn on its neck, and it remained Europe's standard image of a rhino until the late 18th century.

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