White rhinoceros facts for kids

Quick facts for kids White rhinoceros
White Rhinoceros
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Perissodactyla
Family:	Rhinocerotidae
Genus:	Ceratotherium
Species:	C. simum
Binomial name
Ceratotherium simum (Burchell, 1817)
Subspecies
Ceratotherium simum simum Ceratotherium simum cottoni
The white rhinoceros original range (orange: Northern (C. s. cottoni), green: Southern (C. s. simum)).

The white rhinoceros or square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is one of the five species of rhinoceros that still exist and is one of the few megafauna species left. It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of all rhino species.

The northern subspecies has all but died out; the southern is rare.

Images for kids

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  White rhinos in Murchison Falls National Park Uganda

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  Rhino in Solio Reserve, Kenya

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  Southern white rhinos near Waterberg National Park, Namibia

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  Comparative illustration of black (top) and white rhinos (bottom)

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  A northern white rhinoceros crosses the equator during translocation to Ol Pejeta Conservancy

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  White rhinos have three distinct toes

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  The skull

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  Chromosome set of a female northern white rhino. Fibroblast derived iPS cells. G-banding and giemsa staining.

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  White rhinoceros wallowing in the mud

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  A calf of white rhinoceros

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  Young rhino with mother at Rhino and Lion Nature Reserve, Johannesburg

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  A female northern white rhino shot in the early 20th century

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  White rhinoceros at Seoul Grand Park in Gwacheon, South Korea

See also

In Spanish: Ceratotherium simum para niños