Diceros bicornis - #154

Black Rhinoceros
Side view of female and young. Also as Hook-lipped Rhinoceros|Prehensile-lipped Rhinoceros.
Geographic Distribution

Formerly in S Angola, Botswana, Burundi, N Cameroon, Central African Republic, S Dem. Rep. Congo, S Chad, N Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, SE Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe; possibly more widespread in Niger, extending to Benin and Côte d’Ivoire, within historic times. Very much reduced in numbers, particularly in recent decades of 20th century, and probably now extinct in many countries which it formerly occupied. Survives in reserves in Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), and possibly still in Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Sudan, Rwanda, Malawi, Mozambique, Angola, and Botswana; widely reintroduced into parts of South Africa.

Order/Family
Rhinocerotidae
Genus
Diceros
Specific Epithet
bicornis
Image Date
1973
Photographer
SJ Bleiweiss