Are hippos and rhinos the same animal?

A bit about me. I was a zookeeper for over 15 years, most of that time as a pachyderm keeper. Everyone else answered with the obvious differences between the two. So, I will talk on behavioral differences. read more

Both hippos and rhinos are herbivores. Almost 98% of the black rhino population is found in just four countries: South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Kenya when at one stage they were found all over the African continent. read more

Rhinos and hippos are members of the same class, Mammalia; but so are we. The next rung down on the classification ladder is Order. Rhinos are odd-toed ungulates, order Perissodactyla, they are related to horses. Hippos are even-toed ungulates, order Cetartiodactyla, and they are most closely related to whales. read more