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Also known as: Rhinocerotidae, rhino, rhinoceri, rhinoceroses, rhinos
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Eric Dinerstein
Director, Biodiversity and Wildlife Solutions Program, RESOLVE. Former Chief Scientist and Vice President of Conservation Science, World Wildlife Fund. Author of The Kingdom of Rarities and others.
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Plural:
rhinoceroses, rhinoceros, or rhinoceri

rhinoceros, (family Rhinocerotidae), any of five or six species of giant horn-bearing herbivores that include some of the largest living land mammals. Only African and Asian elephants are taller at the shoulder than the two largest rhinoceros species—the white, or square-lipped, rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum), which some divide into two species (northern white rhinoceros [C. cottoni] and southern white rhinoceros [C. simum]), and the Indian, or greater one-horned, rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis). The white rhinoceros and the black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) live in Africa, while the Indian rhinoceros, the Javan rhinoceros (R. sondaicus), and the Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) live in Asia. ...(100 of 867 words)

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