Hoto ya dogara ne akan bayanin da aka rubuta da kuma taƙaitaccen zane da wani dan wasan kwaikwayo wanda ba a san shi ba na rhino na Indiya wanda ya isa Lisbon a 1515. Dürer bai taba ganin ainihin rhino ba, wanda shine misali na farko da aka gani a Turai tun zamanin Roman. A ƙarshen 1515, Sarkin Portugal, Manuel I, ya aika da dabba a matsayin kyauta ga Paparoma Leo X, amma ya mutu a cikin jirgin ruwa a bakin tekun Italiya a farkon 1516. Ba a sake ganin rhino mai rai a Turai ba har sai an sami samfurin na biyu, mai suna Abada, daga Indiya a kotun Sebastian na Portugal a 1577, wanda Philip II na Spain ya maye gurbinsa daga baya a 1580.
Manuel I