White Rhinoceros

The white rhinoceros is one of the largest land mammals after elephants, native to grasslands of southern and central Africa, distinguished from other rhino species by its wide, flat mouth adapted for grazing grass rather than browsing leaves, and by carrying two horns made of keratin on its snout. It is the more social of Africa's two rhino species, sometimes forming small groups, and the southern white rhinoceros subspecies has recovered from near extinction in the early twentieth century to become the most numerous rhino subspecies in the world through sustained conservation efforts, while the northern white rhinoceros subspecies is functionally extinct, with only two known individuals, both female, remaining.