White Rhinoceros
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| AKA | Square-Lipped Rhinoceros
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| Romaji | Shiro Sai
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| Debut | Kemono Friends (2015 Game) | ||
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| Scientific Name | Ceratotherium simum
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| Distribution | Southern and Eastern Africa
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| Diet | Herbivore
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| Avg. Lifespan | 40 – 50 years
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| Read More | White rhinoceros
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| White Rhinoceros | Anime | Festival | Pavilion | KF3 | Kingdom | Nexon Game | Gallery |
White Rhinoceros is a Friend who made appearances in the Kemono Friends anime as well as the original mobile game.
Appearance
White Rhinoceros has dull platinum blonde hair that fades to brown at the tips. It is lightly coiled and tied into a ponytail. She has dark gray eyes and like other Friends, she has her animal, the White Rhinoceros' ears which are small and rounded. She wears metallic armor reminiscent of medieval protection. It does not fully cover her body, and her undersuit is black. She also appears to wear a red leotard. The breastplate has fittings for the individual breasts. She wears thigh-high black socks that are covered in armor up to the knee. She wields a large metallic lance modeled off a rhinoceros' horns, the upper part being bigger than the lower. The lance itself is red.
Series Appearances
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Minor Appearances
Kemono Friends Picross
White Rhino appears in a puzzle of Kemono Friends Picross where the player can obtain a picture of the friend by solving a puzzle.
In Real Life
The white rhinoceros is the largest extant species of rhinoceros. It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of all rhino species. The white rhinoceros is the largest of the five living species of rhinoceros. By mean body mass, the white rhinoceros falls behind only the three extant species of elephant as the largest land animal and terrestrial mammal alive today. It has a massive body and large head, a short neck and broad chest. The head and body length is 3.7 to 4.5 m in males and 3.4 to 3.65 m in females, with the tail adding another 70 cm and the shoulder height is 170 to 186 cm in the male and 160 to 177 cm in the female. The male, averaging about 2,300 kg is heavier than the female, at an average of about 1,700 kg. On its snout it has two horn-like growths, one behind the other. These are made of solid keratin, in which they differ from the horns of bovids (cattle and their relatives), which are keratin with a bony core, and deer antlers, which are solid bone. The front horn is larger and averages 60 cm in length, reaching as much as 150 cm but only in females. They are found in grassland and savannah habitat. Herbivore grazers that eat grass, preferring the shortest grains, the white rhinoceros is one of the largest pure grazers. It drinks twice a day if water is available, but if conditions are dry it can live four or five days without water. It spends about half of the day eating, one third resting, and the rest of the day doing various other things. White rhinoceroses produce sounds which include a panting contact call, grunts and snorts during courtship, squeals of distress, and deep bellows or growls when threatened. They are quick and agile and can run 50 km/h. White rhinos can live to be up to 40–50 years old.
Trivia
- The white rhinoceros does not actually get its name from its color. It originates from a mistranslation of the Dutch word "wijd", which means "wide" in English. The word "wide" refers to the width of the rhinoceros's mouth. An alternative name for the white rhinoceros, more accurate but rarely used, is the square-lipped rhinoceros.
- The white rhinoceros' generic name, Ceratotherium is derived from the Greek terms keras (κερας) "horn" and therion (θηριον) "beast". Simum, is derived from the Greek term simus (σιμος), meaning "flat nosed".
References
- https://www.rhinosinfo.com/physical-apperance-white-rhino.html
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_rhinoceros