White rhinoceros
The white rhinoceros, white rhino or square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is the largest extant species of rhinoceros. It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of all rhino species. The white rhinoceros consists of two subspecies: the southern white rhinoceros, with an estimated 16,803 wild-living animals, and the much rarer northern white rhinoceros. The northern subspecies has very few remaining individuals, with only two confirmed left in 2018 (two females: Fatu, 18 and Najin, 29), both in captivity. Sudan, the world's last known male Northern white rhinoceros, died in Kenya on 19 March 2018 at age 45.
| White rhinoceros Temporal range: Early Pleistocene - Recent | |
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| A white rhinoceros in South Africa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Rhinocerotidae |
| Genus: | Ceratotherium |
| Species: | C. simum |
| Binomial name | |
| Ceratotherium simum (Burchell, 1817) | |
| Subspecies | |
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Ceratotherium simum cottoni (northern) | |
| White rhinoceros original range.
Northern (C. s. cottoni)
Southern (C. s. simum)) | |
| Northern white rhino distribution range according to the IUCN.
Extant and assisted colonisation (Resident)
Extinct
Possibly extinct | |
| Southern white rhino distribution range according to the IUCN.
Extant (Resident)
Extant and reintroduced (Resident)
Extant and assisted colonisation (Resident)
Presence uncertain & assisted colonisation | |
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