The white rhino uses the horn for grazing. He pushes the bushes aside to get to the grass.
The white rhino uses the horn for grazing. He pushes the bushes aside to get to the grass.
the black rhino eats leaves. The upper lip is used as a sensitive finger to take leaves from branches. The animal sometimes overthrows trees to get to the leaves, and he uses his two horn for that purpose.
the black rhino eats leaves. The upper lip is used as a sensitive finger to take leaves from branches. The animal sometimes overthrows trees to get to the leaves, and he uses his two horn for that purpose.
Rhinos don't see well, which handicap makes them suspicious and sometimes aggressive. Rhinos have been seen attacking termite hills thinking that it is an elephant.
Mating can take well over an hour. That has given the rhino the name of being superpotent. For that reason, not only the horn but also the hide and the few hairs are given all kinds of magical powers.
Most horns only reach ? meter. But Gertie, a rhino formerly in Amboseli, had a horn of 1.38 m.
