South African vets then tranquillised the animal before removing a bullet.
The rhino was shot at by poachers, who kill up to 2,000 each year.
Photographer Rainer Schimpf said: “The microchip in the horn lasts for only a certain amount of time so it has to be replaced once a year.
“If poaching takes place then one can trace where the horn is going and who the parties are who have conducted those crimes.”
“The whole process took about 45 minutes.”
The rhino, which lives at an undisclosed location on South Africa's Eastern Cape, was shot with a tranquilliser dart.
Rainer added: “The price of a rhino is equivalent to the gold price so the value of the rhino horn pictured would have been up to $50,000.”
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