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Indian Rhinoceros
The Indian Rhino, is also known as the Great One-horned Rhinoceros. It can be found in Nepal, and in Assam, India. The Indian Rhinoceros stays in forests and tall grasslands in the lower hills as you approach the Himalayan Mountain range.

Javan Rhinoceros
The Javan Rhino is not very well known among the remaining species of Rhinos. This is one reason it has such a low population. They can be found within the Ujung Kulon National Park in Java, and prefer lowland rainforests, large flood plains with mud wallows, and tall grass and reed beds.

Sumatran Rhinoceros
The Sumatran Rhinoceros is the smallest of the remaining five species of the Rhino. It is the furriest of all the remaining species. This fur allows it to survive in very high altitudes in Sumatra and Borneo. It is extremely rare due to habitat loss and poaching.

White Rhinoceros
The White Rhino is also known as the Square-lipped Rhinoceros because of it’s wide mouth which is used for grazing, The White Rhino is known for being the most social of all the rhino species. The name of the White Rhino has nothing to do withy their color. Instead, it comes from a misinterpretation of the Afrikaans word “wyd”, which translates to “wide”. Early English settlers in South Africa took that word for “white” rather than “wide”, and so it was named the White Rhinoceros. In contrast to the White Rhinos wide mouth, the species of rhinoceros with a narrow mouth was called the Black Rhinoceros.

Black Rhinoceros
The Black Rhino is native to the eastern and central areas of Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon, South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe. Although the Rhino is referred to as a “Black” creature, it has little or nothing to do with the color of the animal. It is actually more of a grey-white color in appearance. The name of the species was chosen to distinguish it from the White Rhinoceros, which has a wide mouth and the Black Rhino has a narrow mouth. The World Conservation Union (IUCN) announced on 7 July 2006 that one of the four subspecies, the West African Black Rhinoceros has been tentatively declared as extinct.