Nairobi National Park

Photos by Ned Knocker:

We met a group of 6 white (or grass ) rhinos on the way to school…..

There are 11 in total in Nairobi National Park; one of the translocated females gave birth justs days after arriving from Nakuru NP……

Here she is……one could never get this close to our native black rhinos. These are Southern White Rhinos from Southern Africa, whilst our Blacks are the East African sub-species (michealii) of the browse rhino.

Here is a white bull: notice his extraordinary pendulous lips (a very wide mouth:hence ‘white’ rhino) adapted to cropping grass on the savannah…