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Height up to 1.7 m; weight up to 1.4 t.
This massive herbivore, of armour-plated appearance, has only one horn on the end of the nose, grey hairless skin and short stout legs. Unlike the cattle horns, rhino horns have no bony core like those of cattle and sheep, and consisting entirely of keratin fibres fusing compacted together on a roughened area on the skull. Each foot has only three toes. Three skin folds crossing body on neck, behind front legs and before hind legs.