Mother rhino and her baby in bush. Cute baby Rhino trying to suckle! The baby has freckles and dots on it's cute derriere!

Rare shot of a Rhinoceros mama's teats - look in between her rear legs and behind her tiny little tail!

This is a black and white night illuminated shot of a really tiny rhino baby with her mother, trying to suckle by getting under her leathery belly, to reach her teats! A rare sequence taken at night, by accompanying a forest department anti-poaching patrol squad.

Mother rhino and her baby in bush.

Rhinoceros, also known as rhino, is a group of five extant species of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae. Two of these species are native to Africa and three to southern Asia.

The rhinoceros family is characterized by its large size (one of the largest remaining megafauna), with all of the species able to reach one tonne or more in weight; an herbivorous diet; a thick protective skin, 1.5--5 cm thick, formed from layers of collagen positioned in a lattice structure; relatively small brains for mammals this size (400--600 g); and a large horn. They generally eat leafy material, although their ability to ferment food in their hindgut allows them to subsist on more fibrous plant matter, if necessary. Unlike other perissodactyls, the African species of rhinoceros lack teeth at the front of their mouths, relying instead on their powerful premolar and molar teeth to grind up plant food.

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