The Rhino

A Big Gray Animal.

Features

Physical description. Rhinoceroses are universally recognized by their massive bodies, stumpy legs and either one or two dermal horns. In some species, the horns may be short or not obvious. They are renowned for having poor eyesight, but their senses of smell and hearing are well developed.

Senses

They are renowned for having poor eyesight, but their senses of smell and hearing are well developed. The biggest of the five surviving species are Africa's white rhino and Asia's greater one-horned rhinos.

Babies

Southern white rhinos most often give birth to a single calf which usually weighs between 40 and 65 kg (88 and 143 lb). Rhino calves can stand and walk very quickly after birth but they are unsteady on their large feet for their first two to three days of life.

Species

• the rhino,
• the gray rhino,
• the big rhino,
• the small rhino,
• and green rhino.