Woolly Rhino

The Woolly Rhino (or Woolly Rhinoceros) is one of the Creatures in ARK: Survival Evolved.

Behavior
Woolly Rhinos are neutral, and will only attack if you attack them, other nearby Rhinos will become aggressive as well if they are within a small range. They will always attack you straight on, so find some high ground.

Appearance
A brutish herbivore native to the island's colder regions, the woolly rhinoceros is also one of its largest mammals. Resembling a modern rhinoceros in shape, it has a thick coat of insulating fur and is as nearly large as a Stegosaurus. Its horns are enormous and formidable weapons, and when propelled by a short tempered, short-sighted, multi-ton beast, they can prove lethal against almost any other creature.

Drops

 * Harvest


 * Guaranteed Special Loot

Note: The Woolly Rhino Horn is found in the inventory.

KO Strategy
One of the best ways to knock out a rhino is to kite it to a safe location and then have a tribe member pick you up on a flyer so you can safely knock it out with darts. This way ensures that no tribe member takes any damage from it. If you do not have a flyer, build a 2x3 rectangle of stone fence foundations, top these with 1 high doorways but leave one end open. Lure the rhino into the open end using a fast mount, but make sure it can jump the wall or fit through a 1 wide gap. Have a friend or yourself quickly place doorways to seal off the rhino from escaping. Tranq it with your choice of weapon.

An alternative method for taming is to use 3 metal billboards. Before aggroing the rhino, place the three billboards around the rhino to trap it in place. once trapped, ensure the area around you is safe and no other rhinos/predators are in the area.

Combat
This section describes how to fight against the Woolly Rhino.

General
The Woolly Rhino is a rather threatening opponent, but with the right plan, can be dealt with accordingly. Without the right equipment or strategy you are an easy target for the higher leveled rhino.

Strategy
There are many good strategies that exist to take down a Woolly Rhino. It has incredible melee power, so dealing with one usually incorporates ranged attacks. Bullets and arrows can take down one fairly quickly, but beware the deadly charging maneuver it will use to counter any ranged attacks. Attacking from higher ground such as a cliff or the back of a Quetzal will keep you safe from attack, if such a situation is available. It's also possible to use a decoy and then attack it. As there are many viable strategies, any will work as long as the Rhino cannot skewer a potential tribemate or beloved animal.

Weaponry
Pike, a Spear or two, Longneck Rifle or explosive traps can kill Woolly Rhinos.

Dangers
The Rhino employs a deadly charge attack in combat. Attempt to dodge this lethal maneuver at all costs! The longer distance it clears in charging, the more power it will have on impact. If it catches a player off guard, the player will likely die instantly. The charge is your greatest danger in rhino hunting.

Weakness
Small spaces can be used to your advantage as the Woolly Rhino can not use its charge ability. Also the wild rhinos are not incredibly agile, so you can easily tranq a rhino while circling around a large rock.

Roles

 * PvP: With its charge it can take out or extremely injure larger dinosaurs to let other tribe mates finish them off. (Level Melee Damage, Health and Stamina).
 * Travel: Funnily enough, land travel is often dismissed due to getting stuck on trees and on rocks, but the Woolly Rhino when sprinting will instantly knock down trees, and the trees will not cause the Rhino to stop or slow down. Their very high weight also allows them to carry a lot over land which can be very useful for a large move. They're for certain a mid-late game travelling Mammal, if you don't want the fear of being noticed or tracked from the air (Level Speed and Stamina).
 * Boss Killer: When paired with and if used correctly, Rhinos become a competent fighter in certain boss arenas. This is especially true in the Ragnarok Arena, where Rhinos are a personal favorite of many tribes. It also can consume Sweet Vegetable Cake
 * Transport: The Rhino can build up speed as it runs, its build is indicated by a heart icon. It also has a large carry weight.
 * Gatherer: The Rhino can gather large amounts of berries very quickly when its speed has been built up fully.
 * Escape Vehicle: While the Woolly Rhinos are strong animals that can hold their own in a fight, they are slow when it comes to outrunning threats that are too dangerous for the rhino to handle. Despite not being fast the Woolly Rhino's ability to sprint and charge allows them to outrun most things that are chasing them once their charge meter is completely filled up.

Special Abilities

 * Charge: While riding the Woolly there will be a red heart-shaped meter (mentioned just above in Transport and Escape Vehicle) under the Dino's stats on the HUD. Sprinting continuously will increase this meter which lets you know that the Rhino is gaining a temporary damage multiplier. In order to successfully Charge, all you have to is be sprinting as you attack your target.

Collectibles

 * Thatch Collector: With its charge it can move straight through forests and if you click while doing so it will collect large amounts of thatch. Level stamina, weight.

Notes/Trivia

 * The dossier was revealed on November 23, 2015.
 * The dossier mentions that the woolly rhino is often hunted for its horn, which can be ground up into a valuable powder. This is likely a satirical reference to the illegal rhino hunting trade, as poachers kill rhinoceroses to sell their horns in Asian markets, and it is traditionally believed that the horns are an ingredient in aphrodisiacs.
 * The Woolly Rhino was originally meant to be released with the 237.0 patch but was later delayed for unknown reasons.
 * Increasing Movement Speed does not increase its charge speed, or the rate at which its charge builds. Movement Speed only affects walking speed.
 * Rhino Horn is a possible ingredient required to craft Lesser Antidote.
 * Charge Damage does up to x8 damage (for a full charge meter).
 * The Woolly Rhino, at least in theory, is the only creature in the game more powerful than a, when at a certain, albeit very high, level, as it gains more health per wild and tames level, and with a full charge, does 20 more damage at level 1. However, this is assuming that the stats are distributed the same for both the Giga and the Rhino, and this is at the very least highly unlikely on official servers, as the level would be incredibly high.
 * Woolly Rhino is one of only three creatures for which Kibble is not worth 80 points of food (with the other being Brontosaurus and Megalosaurus). It instead only fills 53.3 points.
 * Real Rhinos are usually solitary creature, while Ark's Woolly Rhinos are sometimes seen in small groups. The true Wooly Rhino's behavior as far as herding is difficult to know however, as they went extinct with the last ice age.
 * Even though the Dossier says that they are friendly they react defensive if attacked.
 * On ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile a full charge does 13.5x damage.