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            The rhino is a gentle giant, that has sturdy legs like tree trunks. Its skin looks like a shield of armor, yet  it is sensitive to touch, sunburn and insects. A group of rhinoceroses is called a crash or herd. 

Rhinos are known to have poor eyesight and charge at things that they might fear. It has a massive head that tapers to that battering ram of a horn. Yet most of the time this fearsome creature is content to browse peacefully on vegetation.

There are two species of African Rhino, the white rhinoceros and the black rhinoceros, they are not really distinguishable by color. Both have two horns, and similar coloration. The main difference is the shape of their mouths – white rhinos have broad flat lips for grazing, whereas black rhinos have long pointed lips for eating foliage.

The black rhinoceros or hook-lipped rhinoceros species overall is classified as critically endangered, and one subspecies, the western black rhinoceros, was declared extinct by the IUCN in 2011.

The Southern white rhino is doing better, but The IUCN list this rhino as near threatened. Adult rhinos have no natural predators, except for man.

The greater one-horned rhino also called the Indian rhinoceros is the largest of the rhino species. The IUCN Listed this species as a vulnerable. 

Sadly the northern white Rhino appears to be on the verge extinction, only a handful are known to exist on earth today, one female Nola resides @ SDZ Safari Park.

The IUCN Red List identifies three of the species as critically endangered.

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Taken at: San Diego Zoo Safari Park, Escondido CA.

Taken on: January 9, 2014

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