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Eastern Black Rhinoceros

Range: Eastern and southern Africa
Habitat: In the savannah, always near water
Height: 4 ½ to 5 ½ feet tall at the shoulder
Weight: 1,750 to 3,000 pounds.
Diet: Herbivorous, use their prehensile upper lip to grasp their food and strip leaves from branches.
Behavior: Solitary and territorial. Males tolerate each other, but hierarchy does exist and dominant males must be treated with respect. They wallow in the mud to protect themselves from insect bites and sunburn.
Location: The Rhino Exhibit can be found in Africa.

At The Zoo

Female Luyisa had a youngster on Feb. 8, 2004.
She weighed only 80 pounds at birth, but now is the size of an automobile. The sire of the calf, Rudisha, is on loan from the Sedgwick County Zoo. Rudisha also sired female, Kifaru Malika, born in August of 2000. Tucker is our other male. He was born in 1993 at the Miami MetroZoo, and arrived here in 1995.

Eastern Black rhinos are a critically endangered species. The total population is only about 600.