Tierleben in Sudwest Afrika: Leitfaden der Zoologie von Sudwestafrika

in small numbers

Black rhino now confined to the bush and rock landscape of Kaokoveld.

Schwarze Nashorn oder Rhinozeros

It usually travels by night to find water. In the late afternoon it looks for food.

the rhino lives in a restricted area which it only leaves when the watering places dry up.

When the rhino senses something unusual, you can hear a loud sneezing.

When the animal senses something unusual, it sneezes and runs off, instead of fleeing, in the direction where the sound came from. In that way he got to know as a very dangerous animal.

Weight 2000 kg

Height at shoulders 1.6 m

Length of body 4 m