The males get the strongest horns but the females get the longest. In old white rhinos, the horn grows around 3 cm per year, about half of the young ones.
When the white rhino is young, its horn can grow up to as much as 6 cm per year. per day.Īfter birth, it takes around five weeks before the white rhino calfs’ very characteristic horn starts to grow. but will grow and increase its mass and weight quickly, gaining about 1.25 kg. For the first couple of years, this calf stays with its mother but when the mother gives birth to another calf, which usually happens after 2-3 years, the first calf is abandoned and seeks company, either by finding other young rhinos or another female with no calf of its own.Īt birth, the white rhinoceros calf weighs 40-65 kg. The white rhinoceros is actually the largest of the five types of rhinos in the world.Īfter a 16-month pregnancy, the female white rhino gives birth to a calf. This giant beast can grow to be as heavy as a fully grown female or a young male African elephant. But other than the thick skin, the African rhinos, especially the white rhinoceros, can reach impressive sizes and weights.
Rhino number of stages skin#
and measure 1.40-1.80 meters at the shoulders.Īfrican Rhinos are in many ways the animal kingdom’s version of the tank with its skin being as thick as 20 mm on the shoulders and 50 mm on the forehead. Black rhinoceros are significantly smaller and weigh from 700-1400 kg. White rhinoceros measure up to 1.80 meters at the shoulders. White rhinoceros males weigh from 2000-3600 kg. I have done some research and written this post about how large the two types of African rhinos are at different stages of their life.
But there is actually a surprisingly large difference in the size of these two types of rhinos. Two of the largest living land mammals are the two types of African rhinoceros: Black rhinoceros and white rhinoceros.
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