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Photo about a black rhinoceros aka hook-lipped rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) at Zoo Dvur Kralove in Eastern Bohemia, Czech Republic. Image of diceros, bicornis, hook - 354928

The number of Eastern Black Rhino, the rarest of the three remaining subspecies, also declined dramatically, from 14,231....

It has been estimated that there may have been as many as 850,000 Black Rhinos in Africa around 1700, and throughout most of the twentieth century, the Black

Oxpecker bird, ready to hunt for parasites, flies toward a big rhinoceros.

Black or White Rhinoceros

For the most part, rhinoceroses are solitary animals and like to avoid each other. But some species, particularly the white rhino, may live in a group, known as a ‘crash’. These crashes are usually made up of a female and her calves, although sometimes adult females (called cows) can be seen together, too.

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