RHINO

For decades, rhinos have been the face of poaching. These giant land mammals are notoriously hunted for their horns due to the unfounded belief that consuming their horn may provide some medicinal benefits. After recovering from near extinction during colonial hunting, these animals are facing ...

During a territorial fight in Nepal, two rhinos go head-to-head (and horn-to-horn), resulting in something never caught on camera until now: one rhino losing its horn in the action.

Watch beautiful moments between a mother and baby rhino. Doma, Nepal's first female nature guide, is fighting to help rhinos and Nepalese citizens live together in harmony, even after a rhino killed her mother.

The tragic loss of her mother to a rhino attack hasn’t stopped Doma Paudel from her fearless conservation efforts. Instead, it inspired her to become Nepal's first female nature guide and to fight to save Nepalese rhinos from near extinction, double Nepal’s tiger population, and ...

Rhinoceros: odd-toed ungulates (hoofed mammals) in the family Rhinocerotidae. AKA: Rhino Kingdom: | Animalia Phylum: | Chordata Class: | Mammalia Order: | Perissodactyla Family: | Rhinocerotidae While nearly 100 known rhinoceros species have existed throughout the eons, there are currently five species of living rhinos. ...

Northern white rhinos are in trouble, even when we are not in the midst of a global pandemic. Nobody knows this more intimately than National Geographic photographer and author Ami Vitale, who has been photographing the sub-species since 2009. Vitale’s photo of Sudan, the last ...