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Two Southern White Rhinos will be transferred to the Birmingham Zoo on Tuesday, kicking off the first stages of its upcoming Trails of Africa exhibit.

The two rhinos – mother and child Laptop and Ajabu – are coming from the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose, Texas, said a news release.

The two are part of a program to continue conservation efforts of the rhinos, thought to be extinct at one time, and other animals formed by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums called Species Survival Plan.

The White Rhino has a square lip, three toes on each hoof and can weigh anywhere from 4,000 to 6,000 pounds, standing five to six feet high, said the release.

P.S. They're not actually white in color, but are *white* rhinos because of their *wide* or, in Dutch *wyd* mouths.

A popular theory of the origins of the name White Rhinoceros is a mistranslation from Dutch into Afrikaans and English. The Afrikaans word "wit", meaning "white" in English is said to have been derived by mistranslation of the Dutch word "wijd", which means "wide" in English and is spelt "wyd" in Afrikaans. The word "wide" refers to the width of the Rhinoceros mouth. So early European settlers in South Africa misinterpreted the "wyd" for "white" and the rhino with the wide mouth ended up being called the White Rhino and the other one, with the narrow pointed mouth, was called the Black Rhinoceros. A review of Dutch and Afrikaans literature about the rhinoceros, however, has also failed to produce any evidence that the word wyd was ever used to describe the rhino.^[3] Other popular theories suggest the name comes from its wide appearance throughout Africa, its colour due to wallowing in calcerous soil or bird droppings or because of the lighter colour of its horn. An alternative common name for the white rhinoceros, more accurate but rarely used, is the square-lipped rhinoceros. The White Rhinoceros' generic name, Ceratotherium, given by the zoologist John Edward Gray in 1868,^[4] is derived from the Greek terms keras (κερας) "horn" and therion (θηριον) "beast". Simum, is derived from the Greek term simus (σιμος), meaning "flat nosed".