White rhinoceros
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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,[3] 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.[4]
White rhinoceros[1] | |
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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 | |
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 | |
Synonyms | |
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