Rhino Resource Center

Welcome to the world's largest online rhinoceros library dedicated to assisting research and conservation efforts globally.

By creating paths, wallows, and dispersing seeds through their dung, rhinos shape entire ecosystems. A single white rhino can produce 20 kilograms of dung daily, fertilising the landscape and spreading plant seeds.

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Rhinoceros Horn Carving of Maitreya and Children

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The Rhino Image Library

The Rhino Image Library provides 7658 rhino related images.

Rookmaaker – SHNH Founder’s Medal

Museum of Pridnestrovie

Petleik Pagoda 11th century

Petleik Pagoda – Myanmar

Toledo 1928 Sada

Kurtz: Clara’s travels map

Cover; Clara the triumphant rhinoceros

Tyndale 1950 Bengal

AMNH 1931 Indian rhino diorama

AMNH 1931 Dumatran diorama

Uganda 1961 black rhino

Cairo 1911 goat

Giza 1911 Rhino and goat

Seshadri 1959 Kaziranga

Seshadri 1959 Kaziranga front view

Dollman 1929 Kaisoot

Willoughby 1889 Kenya

Robbedoes 1956 chased in tree

Robbedoes 1956 Africa chase

Franquin 1956 Robbedoes

Jordan 1919 trading in Kenya

Nile rhino in Powell Cotton Museum

Rhino in India in the mud

Schembeck 1905 raid

Charge by group of black rhino 1905

Black rhino 1919 in pursuit

Bright party 1907 baby rhino

Stanton 1939 Caesar adult rhino

Stanton 1939 Romeo adult captive rhino

Stanton 1939 Kamata adult black rhino

Rhino near Meru by Faulkner

Borneo Kutei young rhino

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The Rhino Document Library

The Rhino Document Library contains a total of 30384 references.

Yayasan Badak Indonesia – YABI; Rubianto, A.; Hardiana, Y.; Ramono, W.S. 2017. Rhino Protection Unit (RPU) activities and performance report. Bukit Baritan Selatan and Way Kambas National Park Lampung: Quarter report for Janauary – March 2017. Report to US Fish and Wildlife Service. pp. 1-41.

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Yayasan Badak Indonesia – YABI 2018. Report: Organizational and program assessment. Jakarta, Penabulu. pp. 1-57.

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Isnan, M.Waladi; Subrata, Dadan D.; Strien, N.J. van 2006. Indonesian Rhino Conservation Program: Annual report 2006. Report of IRCP-PKBI. pp. 1-57.

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Radcliffe, R.W. 2008. RCMP December SRS trip report: Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary, Way Kambas National Park Indonesia, December 4-21, 2008. Report to RCMP. pp. 1-16.

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Payne, J.; Zainuddin, Z.Z. 2018. Aceh Rhino Breeding Centre: an assessment of site suitability. Report to Boerneo Rhino Alliance. pp. 1-15.

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Egerbacher, M.; Kendel, D.; Walter, I.; Artmann, A. 2026. Congenital diaphragm defect in a neonatal southern white rhinocerus (Ceratotherium simum simum). Anatomia Histologia Embryologia 55:e70163: 1-4. doi.org/10.1111/ahe.70163

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Kuiper, T.; Nowak, I.; Hartman, Z.; Ahlers, M. 2026. Does dehorning affect black and white rhinoceros home range behaviour in a semi-arid savannah reserve?. Oryx 2026: 1-9. doi.org/10.1017/S0030605325101981

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Jaselli, L. 2015. Virginio Caccia e il suo contributo alla conoscenza naturalistica del territorio di S. Colombano Al Lambro. Atti della Societa Toscana di Scienze Naturali. Memorie (ser. A) 122: 37-44.

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Chavasseau, O.; Chaimanee, Y.; Soe Thura Tun; Aung-Naing-Soe; Barry, J.S.; Marandat, B.; Sudre, J.; Marivaux, L.; Ducrocq, S.; Jaeger, J.J. 2006. Chaungtha, a new Middle Miocene mammal locality from the Irrawaddy Formation, Myanmar. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 28: 354-362. doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2005.10.012

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Chen, G. 1977. A new genus of Iranotheriinae of Ningxia [Ninxiatherium longirhinus]. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 15: 143-147.

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Avrithis, A.I.; Giaourtsakis, I.X. 2026. First occurrence of a fossil rhinoceros on the island of Kos (Dodecanese, Greece). Discover Geoscience 4 (283): 1-9. doi.org/10.1007/s44288-026-00653-9

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Kampouridis, P.; Kargopoulos, N.; Svorligkou, G.; Giaourtsakis, I.X.; Roussiakis, S.; Theodorou, G. 2018. Rhinocerotidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) remains from the new Pleistocene locality of Richea (Laconia, Greece). IPC5 poster presentation. p. 1.

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Boehme, M.; Kampouridis, P.; Markov, G.N.; Hristova, L.; Spassov, N. 2021. Large mammals (Proboscidea, Perissodactyla) from the late Miocene Burel Basin in West Bulgaria. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 302 (2): 117-129. doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2021/1022

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Kampouridis, P.; Svorligkou, G.; Kargopoulos, N.; Spassov, N.; Boehme, M. 2023. Revision of the late Miocene hornless rhinocerotids from Samos Island (Greece) with the designation of neotypes and implications for the European Chilotheres. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 2024 (e2254360): 1-24. doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2023.2254360

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Kampouridis, P. 2026. Systematic and taxonomic revision of Late Miocene Eurasian rhinocerotids, with a focus on Chilotherium Ringström, 1924. Dissertation presented to the University of Tübingen. pp. 1-298.

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Javan Rhino

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Rhino collections

Carino Database

East Asian and West African Rhinos.

Galleria of Emilio Gargioni

Rhino Depictions In Contemporary Modern Art.

Geraads Fossil Rhino Database

Old World Neogene and Quaternary rhino-bearing localities.

History of Clara

Clara the Rhinoceros tells the marvellous story of the most famous rhinoceros in history.

RRC Newsletters

All newsletters from the start in 2005 were edited and composed by Dr. Kees Rookmaaker, Editor of the Rhino Resource Center.

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The Rhinoceros of South Asia – DISCOUNT

A book by Kees Rookmaaker with chapters by Joachim K. Bautze and Kelly Enright.

Rhinos are ancient survivors

Rhinos have been roaming the Earth for over 50 million years, making them one of the oldest living mammal species. Their ancestors once resembled large tapirs and evolved into the massive creatures we see today.

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Black Rhino

Southern White Rhino

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Fossil Rhino

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Rhinos are ecological engineers

The Rhino Image Library

The Rhino Document Library

Black Rhino

Southern White Rhino

Nile Rhino

Greater One-horned Rhino

Javan Rhino

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Fossil Rhino

Rhinos are ancient survivors