Rhinos and fire response<\/a>: While rhinos are strong and formidable creatures, putting out fires while swimming is beyond their capabilities. Rhinos have thick skin and are excellent swimmers, but their primary instinct is to flee from danger rather than actively engage in firefighting. Leave the task of combating fires to trained professionals equipped with the necessary equipment and expertise.<\/p>Is Swimming Dangerous For Rhinos?<\/h2>\n\n Rhinos don’t really have any true aquatic predators, so being in the water isn’t as dangerous for them as it is for other animals. Crocodiles are the scariest predator but they won’t attack a full-sized adult.<\/strong> However, if the rhinos annoy a family of hippos they could be in serious trouble. Hippos are probably more dangerous to most large mammals – and humans – than crocodiles are.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFor Asian and South-East Asian rhinos – being in the water could be more dangerous than on land if they were being stalked by a big cat.<\/strong> Tigers often hunt in wetlands and could easily sneak up on a snoozing rhino in a river. Tigers are very adept at catching prey in their wetland habitat – as are jaguars – so the rhino (especially if a youngster) would be at a serious disadvantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\nRhino does have extra thick skin though – so they do have a chance to avoid serious injury during an attack <\/strong>– it just depends on a lot of factors. However, there are so many parasites that could strike down an injured rhino – that a failed big cat or hippo attack could still eventually kill them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rhinos love to be in the water, wallowing in the mud and water to stay cool in the hot climate. Some of them are great swimmers – and others – not so much. How Well Can A Rhino Swim? Rhinos aren’t semi-aquatic like hippos – and so don’t actually need to be able to swim. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7946,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions\/7946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}