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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 15,942 wild-living animals in the year 2018, and the much rarer northern white rhinoceros.

is a perissodactyl mammal of the family Rhinocerotidae and the largest of the five species of rhinoceros that exist, the fourth largest land animal and the fourth heaviest land mammal after the three species of elephants. . It can reach 4.2 m in length, 1.85 m in height and up to four and a half tons in the largest specimens. It is one of two species of rhinoceros that live in the African savannah (the other is the black rhinoceros); both have two horns and this one is almost threatened; The black rhino is threatened by poaching.

Prior to the start of the series, several White Rhinos were brought to the park from Africa. They reside in the Ape-Man Jungle Enclosure.

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