Dangers

The white Rhino has no natural predators, despite its size and how it gets angry very easily, it is very easy for man to kill. The white rhino is usually ambushed right in the water hole. Humans are involved by hunting down rhinoceros, while other humans are trying to protect them. People are hunting rhinoceros down for their horns which are the same material as our finger nails. Other humans that protect rhinos, cut off the rhinos horns with out hurting or damaging them so that the poachers will leave them alone.

Rhinos are very sensitive to changes in their habitat because it might mistake a poisonous plant for food and die from it. The White rhino protects itself with its horns but it usually flees from danger. Rhinos protect them self by wallowing in mud so that their whole body is covered with mud that will stop biting flies and parasites, like ticks eating away on its flesh.

Habitat

The habitat of the White rhino is savanna grasslands and in the savanna woodlands that have scattered grassy clearings. The White rhino can be found in the country of Africa in the regions of N.W Uganda and regions close by, Zimbabwe to N. South Africa. The White rhino must have access to water holes because they prefer to drink daily. The animals that live in the same habitat as the White rhinos are giraffe, zebra, antelope, water buffalo, kangaroo, cheetah, hippo, monkey, lion, warthog, dwarf antelope, bearded lizard, baboon, kookaburra, ostrich, and hyena and of which most of them are herbivores.

These animals also come from the same habitat but they usually live in burrows they are mice, gophers, and ground squirrels. The White rhino doesn’t really have a relationship with other animals because it stays in its own herd and the male adults are usually solitary. Probably the closest animal it has a relationship with is the tick bird which eats the ticks off of the White rhino and warns the rhino of oncoming danger like human hunters by making a shrill sound.

Food Chain

Since rhinoceroses are herbivores they are part of only one food chain as they only graze on grass for their nutritional needs and use their horns to dig up mineral salts in the ground and are sometimes seen eating soil, mostly around termite mounds where they obtain certain minerals that they cant get in other places. They are not hunted by other animals for food, though they need to wallow in mud to protect their skin from biting fleas and ticks. The only problem in the food chain would be if there was insufficient grass for them to graze on.