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SpeciesPerissodactylaRhinocerotidae
Mammals

🦏Black rhinoceros

Diceros bicornis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Spetsnoshörning eller svart noshörning (Diceros bicornis) är ett stort uddatåigt hovdjur som lever på Afrikas savanner. 2011 förklarades tre av spetsnoshörningens underarter som utrotade.

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vs you
≈ 16× your weight
Also called
Diceros bicornis, Browse Rhinoceros, Hook-lipped Rhinoceros, Hooked-lipped Rhinoceros
Conservation status
CRCritically endangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
996 kg
Body length
3.3 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
49 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Black rhinoceros

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
996 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1,100 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
3.3 m
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Brain mass
791 g
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Maximum lifespan
49 years
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  • 57 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
17 years
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Age at maturity
6.0 years
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Gestation
1.3 years
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  • 1.3 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
1
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Trophic level
Herbivore
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Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Home range
11 km²
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Population density
0.14 per km²
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Volume l
996 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Black rhinoceros yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

More

More about the Black rhinoceros

Closest relative on this site
🦏 Indian rhinoceros — last shared an ancestor ≈ 13 million years ago.
What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants100%
In other languages
Spitzmaulnashorn (de), rinoceronte Negro (es), rhinocéros noir (fr), rinoceronte nero (it), rinoceronte-negro (pt), 黑犀 (zh) … and 27 more languages

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