Southern White Rhinoceros Drinking

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by Emmy Vickers

Title

Southern White Rhinoceros Drinking

Artist

Emmy Vickers

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

White Rhinoceros Drinking.
You can see the southern white rhinos, ceratotherium simum, on exhibit at The Maryland Zoo in the African Journey/Watering Hole exhibit.

The white rhino is the third largest land mammal in the world, dwarfed only by the Asian elephant and the African elephant. White rhinos weigh between 4,000 and 6,000 pounds and stand 5 to 6 feet tall at the shoulder. Their heads alone can weigh up to 2,000 pounds.

Interesting fact: Technically, white rhinos are not white. They got their name by mistake. In Afrikaans, a Dutch-based language spoken in many parts of southern Africa where the white rhino lives, the word for wide is "wiet" Afrikaans speakers referred to the rhino as "wiet" because of its unusually wide, squared-off upper lip. When English speakers moved to South Africa, they apparently misinterpreted what Afrikaans speakers were saying. They thought that the Afrikaans speakers were calling the rhinos "white" when in fact they were saying "wide." Emmy Vickers,
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September 16th, 2015