Rhino horns are not made of bone, but of keratin;Facts You Never Knew About Wild Animals

The elephant’s trunk contains about 100,000 different muscles, and is used for smelling, breathing, trumpeting, drinking, caressing, carrying and grabbing objects.

Elephants control their body temperature by flapping their ears.

Asian elephants have been domesticated for about 4,000 years. However, African elephants are not easily domesticated

Elephants’ closest known relatives are dugongs and manatees, hyraxes, and aardvarks.

An elephant at the Mara

A buffalo has four times the strength of an ox, according to research by Dr John Conde. This explains why they are able to tip a motorcar.

The ox-pecker bird keeps the Cape Buffalo clean by eating all the parasites that live in its thick hide. Mbogo is the Swahili word for Cape Buffalo.

Buffalos protect their calves by pushing them into the middle of the herd when danger lurks.

Buffalos are capable swimmers and often cross deep water in search of pasture.

Zebras are herbivorous and primarily eat variety of grasses .Overall, plains zebras number at around 750,000. Historically, there were over 15,000 Grevy’s zebras.

Plain zebras are found on the savannas from Sudan to northern Zimbabwe in eastern Africa. Grevy’s zebras are now mostly restricted to parts of Kenya.

Zebras as very social animals and live in large groups called harems.

Rhino horns are not made of bone, but of keratin, the same material found in human hair and fingernails.

The closest living rhino relatives are tapirs, horses and zebras.

The white rhino is the largest of its species and the largest land mammal after the elephant

A group of rhinos is called a crash.

White rhinos aren’t white and black rhinos aren’t black.

Rhino pregnancies last between 15 and 16 months.

A rhino at Maasai Mara National Park