How much does a rhino weigh?
2,300 kg5,070 lb · 2.3 tonnesWhich one: white rhino bull
A rhino weighs about 2,300 kg (5,070 lb).
Animals vary, so Tilt always names a specific, common adult: a worker bee, a house mouse, a Labrador, a bull rather than a calf. The label tells you which one. Source for this figure: Save the Rhino, White rhino.
How heavy is that?
- A rhino weighs about as much as 4.6 horses.
- A rhino weighs about as much as 510 cats.
- A rhino weighs about as much as 38,000 eggs.
- It takes about 18 rhinos to balance a Boeing 737.
- It takes about 4,400 rhinos to balance the Eiffel Tower.
About the same weight
More animals
- Great white shark 1,200 kg
- Beluga whale 1,430 kg
- Hippo 1,500 kg
- Woolly mammoth 5,500 kg
- Elephant 6,000 kg
- Orca 7,200 kg
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