What kind of rhinoceros are we looking at?

What kind of rhinoceros are we looking at?

A Southern white rhinoceros
B Sumatran rhinoceros
C Black rhinoceros

Both the black and Sumatran rhinoceros are significantly smaller than the white rhinoceros. Though the black rhino is grey like its white cousin, it has a pointed lip. The white rhino has a square lip, which is wider. The Dutch word for wide, ‘wijd’ was misheard as ‘white’, and that’s how the white rhinoceros name came to be.

The correct answer is Southern white rhinoceros.

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