Mild and inoffensive in temperment, this species of rhino is the most social with females often living in groups of 5-7 individuals. Rhinos are very good mothers and will stay with a calf teaching and protecting it for 2-4 years. Adult males are solitary and territorial. Reproduction Females become sexually mature at 5 years of age and bear their first calve at 6-8 years. A single birth is the rule, with the baby weighing only about 4 percent of the mother's weight - about 143 lbs.
Females seek seclusion from other rhinos at the time of birth.
Males first become sexually potent at 7-8 years of age but are prevented from breeding by social factors until they claim their first territories or dominant status usually at an age of 10 years. Lifespan About 40 years. Diet Grasses, plant foilage. Zoo Diet Alfalfa and grass hay, grain and some produce. Predators Man- poaching for their horns.