White rhinoceros | 台北市立動物園資訊網

Thenorthernwhiterhino(Ceratotheriumsimumcottoni)formerlyrangedoverpartsofnorthwesternUganda,southernChad,southwesternSudan,theeasternpart ...

Species of large land mammal

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, 24 and Najin, 29, both in captivity at Ol Pejeta). Sudan, the worlds last known male northern white rhinoceros, died in Kenya on 19 March 2018 at age 45.[4]

A popular albeit widely discredited theory of the origins of the name "white rhinoceros" is a mistranslation from Dutch to English. The English word "white" is said to have been derived by mistranslation of the Dutch word "wijd", which means "wide" in En...