#0274 · 🦊 mammals
White Rhinoceros
🇳🇱 Witte Neushoorn ·Ceratotherium simum
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what is it?
The white rhinoceros 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 19,682–21,077 wild-living animals in the year 2015, and the much rarer northern white rhinoceros. The northern subspecies has very few remaining individuals, with only two confirmed left in 2018 (two...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 9,536 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by William John Burchell in 1817 (209 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- White Rhinoceros
- Nederlands
- Witte Neushoorn
- scientific name
- Ceratotherium simum
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Perissodactyla
- family
- Rhinocerotidae
- IUCN Red List
- NT · near threatened
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 9,536
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1817 by William John Burchell
IUCN in Dutch: gevoelig. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Rhinocerotidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 43348, Wikidata Q159918, GBIF 2440880, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.