The mud-caked rear end and tail of a White Rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum, photographed in Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya.
White Rhinos are about the same size as the Asian One-horned species, and together they are the world’s largest land mammals after the Elephant species. They are not white, but grey: their name comes from their wide lips, adapted for grazing, ‘weit’ in Afrikaans. Nowadays, they are often referred to as Wide-lipped Rhinoceros, for accuracy.
There is a good population of White Rhinos in Lake Nakuru National Park, where they have been relocated for safety. Sadly rhinos are still being poached for dagger handles and for totally misguided uses in Chinese medicine. The species is critically threatened.
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