page_title: Big five game
section_title: Black rhinoceros
hierarchical_section_title: Big five game / Species / Black rhinoceros
caption_attribution_description: English: Black Rhinos in Ngorongoro Crater. The image is a scan of an old film print. Photograped by Brocken Inaglory in :Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
context_page_description: In Africa, the Big Five game animals are the lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant, and Cape buffalo. The term was coined by big-game hunters, and refers to the five most difficult animals in Africa to hunt on foot, but is now also widely used by safari tour operators.
  The 1990 and later releases of South African rand banknotes feature a different big-five animal on each denomination.
  Countries where all can be found include Angola, Botswana, Zambia, Uganda, Namibia, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Malawi.
context_section_description: The black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) is a large herbivore having two upright horns on the nasal bridge. Its thick (1.5–5 cm) protective skin, formed from layers of collagen positioned in a lattice structure, is very hard to puncture. It is now critically endangered, and hunting is extremely limited due to this. In the context of big-game hunting in Africa, the term "rhinoceros" may also refer to the white rhinoceros, but among big five game hunters, the black rhinoceros is preferred.
caption: Black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)
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