White Rhino and Baby-Ceratotherium simum

The white rhinoceros or square-lipped rhinoceros is the world's second largest land mammal. It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of ...
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The white rhinoceros or square-lipped rhinoceros is the world's second largest land mammal. It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of all rhino species. Poaching of the rhino for its horns has made it an endangered species. The white rhino is particularly vulnerable to hunting, because it is a large and relatively unaggressive animal and generally occurs in herds. This image is from South Africa.
A popular theory of the origins of the name "white rhinoceros" is a mistranslation from Dutch to English. The English word "white" is said to have been derived by mistranslation of the Dutch word "wijd", which means "wide" in English. The word "wide" refers to the width of the rhinoceros' mouth. So early English-speaking settlers in South Africa misinterpreted the "wijd" for "white" and the rhino with the wide mouth ended up being called the white rhino and the other one, with the narrow pointed mouth, was called the black rhinoceros.
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