9 extraordinary rhino photos reveal just how powerful and intimidating these animals can be

Found in Africa and Asia, rhinoceroses are some of the largest-living land mammals.

Only African and Asian elephants tower above the white rhinoceros and the Indian rhinoceros. But there are actually five extant species of rhino.

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The heaviest of them, the Indian rhino, can weigh up to 2,700kg and possesses an enormous horn. But despite their formidable-looking appearance, rhinoceroses are relatively unaggressive herbivores.

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However, their sheer size and strength should never be underestimated, as these photographs demonstrate.

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