Round-lip
The black rhino, a browser, can lift its head up. This the white rhino, a grazer, is unable to do.
As opposed to common belief, one is not black and the other white. How the white rhino got its name, nobody knows, though it has been suggested that this is a derivation from the old Cape Dutch word 'witte', meaning huge. The white and black rhinos are also known respectively as the 'square-lip' and 'round-lip' rhinos.
To spread the rhino population to the other reserves to prevent overcrowding, the rangers shoot darts that inject a sleeping drug into them. They are then moved while unconscious to the bomas, stout wooden enclosures, where they are kept for three months until. they are docile enough to be transported to the other game reserves. Surprizingly enough the black rhino settles down quicker than the white rhino.
The black rhino, a browser, can lift its head up. This the white rhino, a grazer, is unable to do.
The black rhino, a browser, can lift its head up. This the white rhino, a grazer, is unable to do.
The white rhino bull is very territorial in his habitat. He claims an area of bush for himself and then makes heaps of dung, known as middens, to mark the boundary.
Another important distinguishing mark is the prominent hump on the back of the white rhino which the black rhino does not have.
As opposed to common belief, one is not black and the other white. How the white rhino got its name, nobody knows, though it has been suggested that this is a derivation from the old Cape Dutch word 'witte', meaning huge. The white and black rhinos are also known respectively as the 'square-lip' and 'round-lip' rhinos.
Gestation period 25 months
According to fossils the white rhino has remained practically unevolved for the last six million years. The black rhino, though, has evolved tremendously because it has adapted itself much more freely to a changing environment and this tends to explain why they are much more numerous and widespread than the white rhino.
The white rhino bull is very territorial in his habitat. He claims an area of bush for himself and then makes heaps of dung, known as middens, to mark the boundary. The black rhino on the other hand, prefers to roam.
Another important distinguishing mark is the prominent hump on the back of the white rhino which the black rhino does not have.
The black rhino on the other hand, prefers to roam.
The black rhino however is extremely unpredictable and has a really black temper.
The black rhino, a browser, can lift its head up. This the white rhino, a grazer, is unable to do.
Gestation period. 18 months
The white rhino under normal conditions is very docile and will lumber away at the clapping of one's hands. The exception to this is when they get confused as they then charge in the direction they are facing. Virtually nothing stops them. A white rhino cow with a calf can also be dangerous.
Weight 3 tons
Weight 3 3/4 tons
