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My interest in the white rhino started about three years ago when I was doing a research paper about the African elephant. I came across the white rhino as I was searching for the fellow species that were being threatened by hunters in Africa. I never really paid much attention to large wild animals before because of the fact that they are large and I figured that they wouldn’t be threatened like most smaller animals. One threat this wild rhino is facing is habitat loss due to agriculture and settlements. Another threat is poachers who are interested in their horns to sell mainly across the East. Although these threats are putting white rhinos at risk, through the efforts of groups such as the Wild Foundation and World Wild Life, the prognosis for the continued survival of the white rhino is good. …show more content…

Many pay little to no attention to this specie just like a hippopotamus or an animal that seems to stand out as if it were a white tiger. These creatures are mostly located around South Africa, North Africa and there are a few around East Africa as well (White Rhino; White Rhinoceros). The white rhino is very muscular, “white rhinos have a square upper lip with almost no hair” and has its two front ivory horns (White Rhino). These creatures travel in herds and mark their territory usually with “vigorously scraped dung piles” (White Rhinoceros). Males have a small land range of 1-3km although the females land range is about 6-20km or even lager depending on the population density and the land quality (White

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