Onboard a Boeing 747 charter flight, 30 white rhinos were recently transported from South Africa to Rwanda.
Highlights:
They were relocated due to the growing danger of illegal poaching. It was the world’s largest single white rhino transfer.
Ceratotherium simum is the scientific name for white rhinoceros, also known as square-lipped rhinoceros.
They are the world’s largest rhinoceros species.
They have a large mouth that they use to graze with. Among all rhino species, they are thought to be the most social.