![]() black rhinos spend most of their time in thickets in which they are very well camouflaged.white rhinos like open grasslands with nothing on the way to divert the lawn mower from its feeding mission…. ![]() black rhinos have pointy lips that help them browse thorny thickets they feed on (they are sometimes called hooked-lipped rhinos).white rhinos are grazers and they spend most of their time with their head low by the ground nicely mowing the lawn with their wide and flat lips.So stop focusing on the colour, and look closely at: The word got badly transferred into English as white, and from there the other specie was called black to differentiate it. No, it is not their skin colour that is going to help you differentiate a white rhino from a black rhino!Īctually, white rhinos were named “wide” rhinos, referring to their lips by the Afrikaners (using the Afrikaans word “wyd”). How to differentiate a white rhino from a black rhino? The other three species live in Asia: the greater one-horned rhino in Nepal and India, the Sumatran rhino in Borneo and Sumatra, and the Javan rhino in Indonesia (and are not discussed in this article). Two of them, the white and black rhinos, live on the African continent. There are five different rhino species remaining on the planet. Keep reading to learn more about rhinos…ĭid you know that there are 5 rhino species? In this series of five articles, we feature the Big 5 ( lions, leopards, elephants, rhinos and buffalos) – Africa’s most dangerous mammals to encounter on foot in the wild. Poachers are a very serious threat and all means are good for them to locate these prehistoric animals for their horns that sell for a fortune on the black market in order to feed the unsatiable Chinese and Vietnamese demand. “Please, do not post your photos on social media with the exact location of any rhinoceros”, our field guide urges us with a solemn voice. For a few magical moments, the sound of the shutters of our cameras competes with the singing of the birds and the loud and ungracious honking of a couple of Nile Geese fiercely guarding their precious body of water. Our safari guide seems to have picked up some tracks and signs of one of them… Under the rising sun, he snaps his fingers to signal us to stop walking, while pointing out three majestic white rhinos close to a small waterhole, only 200 metres away from our small group. With three other wildlife enthusiasts, we are on a mission to spot some of the Big 5 and one of world’s most ancient mammals. I follow our trail guide in his tracks while scanning the bushes surrounding me in the Hluhluwe Imfolozi park in South Africa during an early morning bush walk. Photographs: Marcella van Alphen & Claire LessiauĪll photographs taken in the wild & available in high definition upon request.
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