Hello everyone! Welcome to Hello Everyt]hing!
Today we’ll meet a very big animal who has two big horns on its head!
Hello everyone! I’m a Rhinoceros!
Hello, Rhinoceros! Nice to meet you! Where do you live?
I live in the grasslands of Africa!
Wow! I know an animal that lives in Africa! Lion!
Oh, I know him! But he is a carnivore!
We don’t get along very well. My friends are all herbivores! Zebra, Giraffe, and Warthog!
You look like the biggest animal out of anyone there!
Are you the biggest animal in Africa?
Well, I am the biggest species of Rhinoceros, a Northern White Rhino!
I am actually the second largest of all animals in Africa!
I am bigger than a Hippo but smaller than an African Elephant!
A Northern White Rhino? What other Rhino species are there?
There are 5 species of Rhinos on Earth!
White, Black, Javan, Sumatran, and the Greater one-horned Rhino!
Only the White Rhinos and Black Rhinos live in Africa!
Wow, How can we tell a White Rhino like yourself from a Black Rhino?
That’s easy! We have longer foreheads and our upper lip is wide and square,
while the Black Rhino’s are pointy and hooked!
That’s a great tip! Phew, it’s starting to get really hot! What are we going to do?
Let’s find a cool shaded area and get some sleep!
Well, well, well! It’s about time we get something to eat!
What are you going to eat? A big chunk of steak?
What? Despite my enormous size, I am a herbivore!
So I have to eat lots and lots of vegetation!
How much vegetation do you eat in a day?
I have to eat around 50kg of grass in a single day!
I weigh around 2000kg, so that is the equal of a 20kg human kid eating 500g of vegetables!
Wow! That must take a lot of your time!
Yup! If you ever see me out here with my head down, I will be 100% grazing grass!
Awesome! Enjoy your meal!
See you in a bit!
Rhinoceros! Where are you?
I’m right here!
What are you doing?
I’m taking a bath! I’m trying to get my body covered in mud!
Why are you getting yourself dirty in the mud?
Oh, you have no idea how good mud is for my skin! My skin may be really thick and leathery,
but it’s surprisingly sensitive to insect bites and injuries!
Oh really? That explains all the small cuts in your body!
That’s right! So by coating myself in mud, I will have an extra layer of protection!
That’s interesting! How does the mud protect your skin?
It works as a natural sunblock and protects my skin from sunburns!
And it also makes it harder for the insects to bite me!
That is so clever Rhinoceros! Keep rolling in the mud!
I am actually almost done! Wait up!
This is where I live!
Wow! Do you live alone or do you have a family?
I live with my mom. Mommy!
Hello darling! Did you have a lot of fun out there today?
Yes! I met a lot of my friends and took a mud bath!
You didn’t forget to eat a lot of grass in between, right?
Yes mommy! I had more than 50kg of grass today!
Great job!
So, are there any other members in your family?
Sadly…no. We are the only two Northern White Rhinos left on Earth.
What? How did that happen?
Humans kept killing our friends and family to take our horns to use them in their medicine.
Our horns are just a part of our body made of keratin! Same as your fingernails!
That is absolutely absurd!
That’s why we are kept safe here under 24-hour care.
I wish they would stop poaching our relative Southern White Rhinos too!
Well is there no chance at all for another Northern White Rhino?
Not in a natural way anymore. My mom is too old and I am not fit to have any babies.
But a group of very smart humans
is working really hard to figure out a way to make baby rhinos of our kind!
I wish they make so many baby Northern White Rhinos to live with us!
I hope so too! When that day comes, I wouldn’t miss it for the world!
I really wish the next time we visit these Northern White Rhinos, they are out in the
wild living freely with their newborns! Thanks for watching! See you next time bye!