Is it Black or White?

This rhino was a regular visitor to the Etosha waterhole, but none of us could work out if he was a "black" or "white" rhino - one of them is very rare.

The Rest of Namibia & Etosha National Park

January 5th 2008
It is now the 23rd January (I started writing this entry on the 5th) and we are in Dar es Salaam after leaving our overland tour a day early to avoid traveling into Kenya. This is the first Internet cafe with equipment fast enough to upload photos etc that we have encountered in the last month! In order to avoid fatigue, yours and mine, I will break down the last several weeks into a number of d ... read more

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29th December 2012

Missippi Monkeyking
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Black or White?
It's a black Rhino. The way to tell is to look at the top lip. A "White" Rhino has a flat lip that looks like a vacuum cleaner. It's wide, which is how the rhino gets its name (corruption of the German/Afrikaans word for wide). The black rhino has a pointy prehensile lip, almost finger-like, which is used for eating shrubs and bushes (the white rhino mostly grazes on grass off the ground)

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