A tall, thick, erect mane extends from between its big ears to well back onto the area between the shoulder bones. Grevy s zebras are native to the semiarid and desert country in northern Kenya, southern Ethiopia and parts of Somalia. This three-ton animal is the largest rhinoceros and the third largest land animal. Only the African and the Asian elephants exceed them in size. They are not white, but a slate-gray color.
White rhinos eat grass exclusively.
Valued for its use in Asian folk medicine, horns also are prized as dagger handles in North Africa. By 1892, it was thought that southern white rhinos had been hunted to extinction. But in 1986, a herd of 20 animals was found in an isolated area of Zululand. Because of the dedication of an American biologist, Dr. Herbert Lang, these animals were given government protection and their homeland was made into a national park. Today, more than 3,500 southern white rhinos survive in well-protected parks and reserves.