The white rhinoceros or square-lipped rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum is the largest extant species of rhinoceros. It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of all rhino species. The white rhinoceros consists of two subspecies: the southern white rhinoceros, with an estimated 19,682ââ¬â21,077 wild-living animals in the year 2015, and the much rarer northern white rhinoceros. The northern subspecies has very few remaining individuals, with only two confirmed left in 2018 two females; Fatu, 18 and Najin, 29, both in captivity. Sudan, the world`s last known male northern white rhinoceros, died in Kenya on 19 March 2018.nPhoto taken in Moroccan zoo.
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