The black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis), also known as the hook-lipped rhinoceros, is one of two species of rhino found in Africa.

Indian and white rhinos are both classified as grazers. Black, Sumatran, and Javan rhinos all fall into the category of browsers. Rather than feed on grasses, they instead focus their attention on ...

Black rhinos are more notable for their “hook” lip, which is different from the other species’ square lips. They live in southern and eastern Africa, and are generally solitary creatures ...

Crackdown on poachers who kill endangered rhinos 02:21. A Malaysian man who sold a dozen black rhino and white rhino horns to a confidential source was sentenced to a year and a half in a U.S ...

Only one other rhino calf — an eastern black rhino born in 2013 — has been born at the zoo in its 134 years. ... meaning “wide” — a reference to the shape of white rhinos’ upper lips.

Save The Rhino estimates there are approximately 6,000 black rhinos left and around 15,000 white rhinos. Those two species are only found in the wild in Africa .

This World Rhino Day, Sunday 22 September, the Mpumalanga community celebrated the decade of work the Care for Wild Rhino Sanctuary has dedicated to conserving South Africa’s black and white ...

Dehorning rhinos to save them may seem perverse. But it's become much more common in recent decades, in a last-ditch effort to save populations of black and white rhinos in South Africa and ...

Black and white rhino populations in the Greater Kruger (Kruger National Park and surrounding reserves) in South Africa have plummeted from over 10,000 rhinos in 2010 to around 2,600 in 2023.

African white rhino populations have shown an increase for the first time in over a decade despite continued poaching, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources ...

Lion Country Safari welcomed a male southern white rhinoceros calf, named Orion, on March 3, 2024. Officials said the calf is expected to gain 3-4 pounds a day from his mother's milk and will gain ...

Only one other rhino calf — an eastern black rhino born in 2013 — has been born at the zoo in its 134 years. ... meaning “wide” — a reference to the shape of white rhinos’ upper lips.