Diceros bicornis
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around iSimangaliso Wetland Park, aggregated onto a 50 km grid. A cell is matched by its centre, which can sit up to 16 km outside the boundary, so this covers the surrounding country too.
Occurrence records measure where people looked and found something, which is not the same as where the animal is. This is a relative likelihood, not a probability.
A grid cell is a square of the map, not a sighting: 2 squares of 50 km carry records for Black Rhinoceros in and around iSimangaliso Wetland Park, and the 3 records behind them were collected by other people and published openly. Nothing here counts animals, and a place with more records is not always a place with more animals.
Around 6,000 black rhinos survive in the wild, and Namibia guards the largest free-roaming population on Earth, including the famous desert-adapted rhinos of the Kunene that walk moonscapes no textbook says a rhino should survive. This is the smaller, feistier of Africa's two rhinos: 800 to 1,400 kilograms, built like a boulder, with a hooked upper lip made for plucking shrubs rather than mowing grass. Poaching erased 96 percent of the species between 1970 and the early 1990s; every animal you see here descends from the survivors of that collapse. They are near-sighted, sharp-eared, and famously willing to charge first and investigate later, which is half the reason guides love them and the other half why your guide keeps the engine running.
Never share exact rhino locations or recognizable landmarks in photos; poachers read metadata and backgrounds. WorldWildMap generalises every rhino record to a 50 km zone for this reason.