He used two unusual terms to describe these potential problems: “black swan” and “gray rhino.” A “black swan” is an unexpected event that has major effects. Imagine something happening ...
Both black and white rhinoceroses are actually gray. They are different not in color but in lip shape. The black rhino has a pointed upper lip, while its white relative has a squared lip.
The winning image from the fifty-third Wildlife Photographer of the Year captures the aftermath of an act of brutality: a dead black rhino, killed for its commercially valuable horn. Museum mammal ...
Still, the white rhino population in South Africa is on the rise despite the poaching thanks to preservation efforts, the report said. While thriving in several regions, the total black rhino ...
A baby black rhino - one of the rarest mammals in the world - has been born at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster. The calf is now three weeks old and has been spotted eagerly exploring the ...
One Florida zoo is hoping to capitalize on the hype. Busch Gardens Tampa Bay welcomed a female Southern White Rhino calf to its "crash" on Sept. 1, weighing approximately 100 pounds at the time of ...
the norther white rhinoceros and the western black rhinoceros. Though some norther white rhinos still exist under heavy guard, the only two specimens are female and cannot reproduce. The biggest ...
Two rhino poachers have been sentenced to 20 years in jail for killing two black rhinos at the Great Fish River Nature Reserve (GFRNR). Arthus Titus Machava, 54, and Disco Mahlaule, 49 ...
The black rhino is classified as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and listed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of ...