White Rhinos are grazers and primarily feed on grasses.Current Range: In several National Parks primarily located in Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe & Kenya.Historic Natural Range: Southern White Rhino subspecies in Southern Africa (Namibia, Botswana, South, Zimbabwe & Mozambique) and the Northern White subspecies in Central Africa (Northern Congo, Southern Sudan & Western Uganda).Habitat: tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas and shrublands.Newborn weaned: at 2 months (may continue suckling to over 12 months).Female sexual maturity: at 6 to 7 years.Birth intervals per calf: 2 to 3 years.White Rhinos graze during the morning and evening and sleep or wallow during the afternoon.Female are more social, aswell as subadults.Males are mainly solitary and territorial, sometimes satelite males share territories.White Rhinos are are semi-territorial and more social than the Black Rhino.White Rhinos may reach speeds of 50 km/h (28 m/h).

Characteristics: wide upper lip and a noticeable hump on the back of its neck.Posterior Horn length: up to 0,55 m (up to 22 in).It is now believed that no rhinos remain in Garamba National park, but efforts are still being made to save this subspecies from captive stock. In recent years the Northern Nile Rhino subspecies has been pushed to (the brink of) extinction due to poaching in Congo and the inaccesibility for conservation organisations due to the civil war. There are about 14,500 White Rhino still left in the wild, and their survival today portraits one of conservation succes stories as their numbers were less than 100 in 1895. Its current range is primarily Southern Africa. It is one of the two species of Rhinos native to Africa. It seems there is every reason to take the risk because when the two remaining Northern White Rhinos pass away, they will be buried next to Sudan, taking the species with them to the grave to be lost forever.The White Rhinoceros is a herbivorous grazer belonging to the order of the Perissodactyla and is the second most massive remaining land animal in the world. “We did really good progress and I think this process can give us optimism that we will be successful even in the next steps,' Stejskal said. Still, there is no guarantee the IVF method will work. To live better with the planet, to live more in tune with our environment,” Vigne said. “We have it in our power, not only for the rhinos but also for other species as well to reverse this process. Ol Pejeta’s CEO, Richard Vigne, says the cost is worth it. The cost of the experiment was not disclosed, but the price is expected to be high. Even if we would succeed in let’s say one year, it would not be realistic to expect to have a Northern White Rhino baby born before three years,” Stejskal said.

“We have to take into account that the gestation period of a rhino is about 16 months.

The vets hope to produce a pregnancy soon, but getting a calf will take time, says Jan Stejskal of the Dvur Králové Zoo. The ten collected ova from the creatures were airlifted to the conservancy where they will be fertilized. Ol Pejeta is working in partnership with the Dvur Králové Zoo in the Czech Republic where these rhinos were born in captivity. The embryos would be inserted into the womb of a surrogate mother from a related rhino species. Now with only two females left, the Ol Pejeta Conservancy has announced that veterinarians have extracted ova from the females to be inseminated with Northern White Rhino sperm collected earlier. It represents the obituary of a race that at one time, at the turn of the 20th century, numbered 3,000 animals. His tomb is not far away from the enclosure in a windy field. They can’t procreate any more since the last male Northern White Rhino, named Sudan, died last year. At the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya there is a secure enclosure where the last two known female Northern White Rhinos are grazing peacefully.

Gestation period for white rhino