The white rhino (Ceratotherium simum), also known as the broad-lipped rhino, is the largest species of the five living rhino species and, apart from the elephants, the largest land animal of today. The white rhinoceros is a large and above all very solidly built animal with a thick, pale grey skin and a short tail with stiff hairs at the end. He's no lighter in color than the black rhino. The white rhino owes its name to a wrong translation by the English of the African wyd, which means "wide, wide" and not "white". In Afrikaans, the wrong translation has also been copied: the rhino is called renoster and the white rhino is called witrenoster. The lips of the white rhino are indeed wide, while the lips of the black rhino are more pointed. These lips use the white rhino to graze, while the pointed lip of the black rhino allows it to pick leaves and twigs more easily.
We are Loek and Karin Lobel, and our passion is animal photography, both in the wild and in zoos.
We are loek en Karin Lobel and we love to take pictures in the wild but also in the Zoo...
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